Beggar Quotations

Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.

Is an artist much more than a beggar?

Every time I sit for a song, I feel I am finished. It's like a beggar sitting waiting for God to fill your bowl with the right thought. In every song, I ask help from Him. Everybody around is so good, so to create music that will connect with so many people is not humanly possible without inspiration.

Nobody in Africa loves to be a beggar or a recipient of aid. Everywhere I go in Africa, people say, 'When are we going to stand up on our feet?'

The man who has really won the love of one good woman in this world, I do not care if he dies in the ditch a beggar - his life has been a success.

I just want to be nominated; beggars can't be choosers.

Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.

There is no pride like that of a beggar grown rich

The beggar wears all colors fearing none.

Wealth, treasures, and household are all just ruins; the Lord's Feet are the only treasure. Nanak is a beggar standing at Your Door, God; he begs for Your charity.

Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.

A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.

Writers are nothing but beggars with a good line.

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

The thief is no danger to the beggar

Put a beggar on horseback and he'll go on a gallop.

Put a beggar on horseback and he'll gallop

All are equal in birth and in death. Differences arise only during the interval. The Emperor and the beggar are both born naked; they sleep equally silently; they bow out without even leaving their new address. Then how can their reality be different? There can be no doubt on this score. All are basically the same.

The beggar begs for Your Name, O Lord and Master; God is contained deep within the nucleus of each and every heart. Slave Nanak has entered His Sanctuary; no one returns from Him empty-handed.

Instead of wearing these beggar s robes, it is better to be a householder, and give to others.

Choosers will be beggars if the begging's not their choosing.

You use the vertical edge as the point of reference, instead of the horizontal edge. I have a picture of a beggar, where there's an arm coming into the frame from the side. And the arm is parallel to the horizontal edge and it makes it work. It's all games, you know. But it keeps it interesting to do, to play.

Not hope, but Faith. I don't believe in hope. Hope is a beggar.

Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars.

The real beggar is indeed the true and only king.

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

A shamefaced man makes a bad beggar.

If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.

Beggars market their incapacity.

Getting love is a very small experience. It is the experience of beggar.

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

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

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

Beggars should be no choosers.

Beggars can't be choosers.

If wishes were stories, beggars would read...

I am a freeman and jolly as a beggar.

Who's a prince or beggar in the grave?

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

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

To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.

Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut.

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.

They are but beggars that can count their worth.

Time to put off the world and go somewhereAnd find my health again in the sea air,"Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzy-struck,"And make my soul before my pate is bare.

We can hardly call a beggar an obstacle to generosity.

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

Fate makes a beggar a king and a king a beggar. He makes a rich man poor and a poor man rich.

As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg

We are all beggars, each in his own way.