Top 343 Poorer Quotes & Sayings

I think the world would be much poorer without religion, speaking generally.

Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.

Now everyone is prouder and poorer

The poorer we are inwardly, the more we try to enrich ourselves outwardly.

Culture is something that we all share, and we are all the poorer for anyone excluded from it.

People promise to stick with their spouse 'for richer or poorer' but it's the 'for poorer' part that causes the worry. The big shock is that the 'for richer' bit can also cause problems.

No business in the world has ever made more money with poorer management.

No one ever was the poorer for giving

Define the limits of your vision: Having this, you will not be poorer Than a man who rules a dukedom.

We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!

I believe in the vows that I took with my wife. Through sickness, in health, for richer or poorer.

My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak. What I see in my country, progressively over these years, is that the rich have got richer, the poor have got poorer. The rich have become indifferent through a philosophy of greed, and the poorer have become hopeless because they're not properly cared for. That's actually something that is happening in many Western societies. Your own, I am told, is not free from it.

No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime, let out all the length of all the reins.

Texts and e-mails travel no faster than phone calls and telegrams, and their content isn't necessarily richer or poorer.

It's through our expenses that we become richer or poorer, regardless of how much money we make.

We were much poorer than many families.

Today we take it for granted that war happens in smaller, poorer and more backward countries.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

At least for tonight. In sickness and in health. In good times and in bad. For richer, for poorer. 'Till dawn do us part.

My family in general - they're troubled or poorer people.

Without television, cricket would be a poorer place;the two have to coexist.

Wrestling is rooted in the Indian soil, yet there isn't enough scope for kids who come from poorer families, but have the talent, to join the sport professionally.

The larger the government, the more our livings standards are reduced. We are fortunate as a civilization that the progress of free enterprise generally outpaces the regress of government growth, for, if that were not the case, we would be poorer each year - not just in relative terms, but absolutely poorer too. The market is smart and the government is dumb, and to these attributes do we owe the whole of our economic well-being.

Imagine, there is almost no possibility for a foreign language film to be distributed in America right now. That doesn't just make the industry poorer, it makes the landscape of cinema poorer, in America. The impossibility to get a good release on a really good European, Latin American, Asian movie is a tragedy.

If you are a rich person straining every sinew to keep every last pound in your pocket, there comes a point when you realize you are not just escaping the clutches of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. You are passing a greater burden on to people poorer than yourself, and depriving even poorer people of your support.

As restrictions and prohibitions are multiplied the people grow poorer and poorer. When they are subjected to overmuch government, the land is thrown into confusion.

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.

If the wealthy get wealthier, no one has to become one penny poorer.

Generally speaking, the poorer person summers where he winters.

No Man is richer for having his Estate all in Money, Plate, etc. lying by him, but on the contrary, he is for that reason the poorer.

You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.

It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on.

Poorer people tend to watch more television because they can't afford other diversions.

I know he'd be a poorer man if he never saw an eagle fly.

Inflation makes the wealthiest people richer and the masses poorer.

An aircraft which is used by wealthy people on their expense accounts, whose fares are subsidized by much poorer taxpayers.

To kill [children in the womb] makes us all the poorer, insensitive, calloused and jaded.

Longbottom, if brains were gold, you'd be poorer than Weasley, and that's saying something.

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.

Lose the sharks, the mighty, mysterious lords of the deep, and our planet's oceans would be infinitely poorer places.

If we as a society do not understand 'the cloud,' in all its aspects - what data it holds, how it works, what the bargains are we make as we engage with it, we'll all be the poorer for it, I believe.

Yes, in socialism the rich will be poorer - but the poor will also be poorer. People will lose interest in really working hard and creating jobs.

One of the major causes of poverty is a lack of family planning. Governments and nonprofit organizations need to encourage poor people to use birth control so that they don't have unexpected babies, which will only make poorer families poorer.

Low income is related to poorer housing, poorer diet, fewer social amenities, worse working conditions. (...) After adjustment for age, sex, race, smoking, alcohol consumption, sleep habits, leisure-time physical activity, chest pain, diabetes, or cancer, there was still an increase risk of 1.6 for those with inadequate incomes.

I pity people who do not care for Society. They are poorer for the oblation they do not make.

I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

The consequences of a lack of new knowledge is decades of stagnation: the next generation will be poorer than this one.

Culture is something that we all share and we are all the poorer for anyone excluded from it.

How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones?

Leaving the E.U. without a preferential trade arrangement in place would make the U.K. significantly poorer.

I probably had the most fun recording For Richer For Poorer in Nashville.

Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.

Gratitude is an offering precious in the sight of God, and it is one that the poorest of us can make and be not poorer but richer for having made it.

Poverty is a national waste as well as individual waste. We are all diminished when any of us are denied proper education. The nation is the poorer - a poorer economy, a poorer civilization, because of this human and national waste.

If the country's poorer, it's got less money.

The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.

The world would be a poorer place without Doctor Who.

Unless we dream the best dreams of which we are capable, the future will be poorer than it might be.