#poor man

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low. ↗

— Ovid

#counts #everywhere #fortune #friendships #honors

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible. ↗

— Michelangelo

#art #extend #given #god #i

I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax? ↗

— Jackie Kennedy

#best #breathes #comes #day #distraction

Live and think like a poor man and you'll always be OK. ↗

— Gene Simmons

#like #live #man #ok #poor

Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#discussion #enemy #every #free #free discussion

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country. ↗

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

#foreigner #his #like #man #own

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered. ↗

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#despised #fears #former #his #latter

It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man. ↗

— Gregory Nunn

#man #poor #poor man #rich #rich man

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#aid #beyond #care #every #every man