Pastoral Resources

I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.

If you're poor and you do something stupid, you're nuts. If you're rich and do something stupid, you're eccentric.

You lose your manners when you are poor.

The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.

I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.

Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.

Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.

The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.

Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.

The wealth of the country, its capital, its credit, must be saved from the predatory poor as well as the predatory rich, but above all from the predatory politician.

I am actually in poor health due to chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, and my ability to work is greatly diminished right now, so I have to get better before I can start another big project.

We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up?

The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.

This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.

They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined.

How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.

It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.