Top 218 Beggar Quotes & Sayings

Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.

BEGGAR, n. One who has relied on the assistance of his friends.

If one looks closely one sees that there is no essential difference between a beggar's livelihood and that of numberless respectable people. Beggars do not work, it is said; but then, what is work? A navvy works by swinging a pick. An accountant works by adding up figures. A beggar works by standing out of doors in all weathers and getting varicose veins, chronic bronchitis, etc. It is a trade like any other; quite useless, of course - but then, many reputable trades are quite useless.

HAMLET [...] we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one table; that's the end. CLAUDIUS Alas, alas. HAMLET A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. CLAUDIUS What dost thou mean by this? HAMLET Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar.

It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.

My mother once said, "A beggar must always give to another beggar that's worse off than he is." That has always stuck with me.

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

I would rather be a beggar and spend my money like a king, than be a king and spend money like a beggar.

Sadder than the beggar is the man who eats alone in public.

You are the honoured guest, Do not weep like a beggar For pieces of the world.

This is one beggar who has found bread telling others where to find it.

Potter is piqued with potter, joiner with joiner, beggar begrudges beggar, and singer singer.

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

If some beggar steals a bridle he'll be hung by a man who's stolen a horse.

Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy

I am a freeman and jolly as a beggar.

The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.

Meditation, perhaps, is the only alchemy that can transform a beggar into an emperor.

Faith is like the hand of the beggar that takes the gift while adding nothing to it.

The humbleness of a warrior is not the humbleness of the beggar. The warrior lowers his head to no one, but at the same time, he doesn't permit anyone to lower his head to him. The beggar, on the other hand, falls to his knees at the drop of a hat and scrapes the floor to anyone he deems to be higher; but at the same time, he demands that someone lower than him scrape the floor for him.

To me there is no difference whether president, beggar, or king.

Wherever desire exists ego exists, and wherever ego exists illusion exists because ego is the greatest illusion there is. Even in a beggar who has nothing else you will find the same ego as you will find in Alexander the Great, because desiring is the same. Alexander the Great may have much money and much power, that does not matter; he is still desiring. The beggar may not have anything, but he is also desiring.

I saw rich beggars and poor beggars, proud beggars and humble beggars, fat beggars and thin beggars, healthy beggars and sick beggars, whole beggars and crippled beggars, wise beggars and stupid beggars. I saw amateur beggars and professional beggars. A professional beggar is a beggar who begs for a living.

Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot! A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot. Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.

A beggar's mistake harms no one but the beggar. A king's mistake, however, harms everyone but the king. Too often, the measure of power lies not in the number who obey your will, but in the number who suffer your stupidity.

A beggar always remains a beggar. Africa, stop begging - you have what it takes to solve your problem.

The real beggar is indeed the true and only king.

Modesty is of no use to a beggar.

Who's a prince or beggar in the grave?

The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.

The bashful beggar has an empty purse.

The beggar wears all colors fearing none.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

A beggar's book outworths a noble's blood.

A shamefaced man makes a bad beggar.

For a beggar to live at court is not so much as the King to dwell with him in his cottage.

A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.

Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.

There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.

...a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.

Better to be a beggar in freedom than to be forced into compromises against my conscience.

Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.

Set a beggar on horse backe, they saie, and hee will neuer alight.

There is quite a large clan of Scotties among American beggars. He is a good beggar for the simple reason that he is a good talker. Almost every Scotch beggar I met in the States of America was inclined to be talkative, and yet they all managed to conceal their private affairs.

Every beggar shall be arrested. But to arrest a beggar merely in order to put him in jail would be barbarous and absurd. He should be arrested for the sole purpose of teaching him how to earn a living by his work.

In the race for wealth, a neighbor tries to outdo his neighbor, but this strife is good for men. For the potter envies potter, and the carpenter the carpenter, and the beggar rivals the beggar, and the singer the singer.

We can hardly call a beggar an obstacle to generosity.

A ragamuffin knows he's only a beggar at the door of God's mercy.

The earth opens impartially her bosom to receive the beggar and the prince.

No nation respects a beggar.

I went into the army worth a million and a half dollars, and came out a beggar.

Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect.

The strong demand, contend, prevail; the beggar is a fool.

Is an artist much more than a beggar?

Whether I give to a beggar or not, his existence puts me in the wrong.

Evangelism is just one beggar telling another beggar where to find the bread.

Children, we may go to the temple, reverently circumambulate the sanctum sanctorum and put our offering in the charity box, but on our way out if we kick the beggar at the door, where is our devotion? Compassion towards the poor is our duty to God. Mother is not saying that we should give money to every beggar that sits in front of a temple, but do not despise them. Pray for them as well. When we hate others, it is our own mind that becomes impure. Equality of vision is God.

A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts.

Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut.

The shoulders of a borrower are always a little straighter than those of a beggar.