Pastoral Resources

The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with which they speak of others.

The state of my poor boy's health prevents me from leaving home for a night.

The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.

It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me.

The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.

Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.

Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work.

Without greater support for childcare, parents of young children may be forced to choose cheaper, poor quality care for their children or fail to provide it entirely.

It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing.

There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.

The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.