quotations about beggars & begging
Begging for help never gets you any.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
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A Storm of Swords
What is got by begging costs dear.
ITALIAN PROVERB
Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report sometimes he did "go from door to door and sing ballads, with a company of boys about him."
ROBERT BURTON
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Contrary to common belief, panhandlers and homeless people are not necessarily one and the same. Many studies have found that only a small percentage of homeless people panhandle, and only a small percentage of panhandlers are homeless.
OM PRAKASH GOYAL
Anti-social Patterns of Begging and Beggars
Sue a beggar and get a louse.
EDMUND GAYTON
Festivous Notes on Don Quixote
A man may be reputed an able man this year, and yet be a beggar the next; it is a misfortune that happens to many men, and his former reputation will signify nothing.
SIR JOHN HOLT
Reg. v. Swendsen
Better to die a beggar than to live a beggar.
THOMAS FULLER
Gnomologia
A beggar's scrip is never filled.
RICHARD TAVERNER
Proverbs
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Don Quixote
He went among vendors and beggars and wild street preachers haranguing a lost world with vigor unknown to the sane.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Suttree
One beggar bideth woe that another by the door should go.
ERASMUS
Adagia
Most panhandlers are not interested in regular employment, particularly not minimum-wage labor, which many believe would scarcely be more profitable than panhandling.
OM PRAKASH GOYAL
Anti-social Patterns of Begging and Beggars
Begging is much more difficult than it looks. Contrary to popular belief, it's a high art form that takes years of dedicated practice to master.
SOL LUCKMAN
Beginner's Luke
I'd just as soon be a beggar as king,
And the reason I'll tell you for why:
A king cannot swagger, nor drink like a beggar,
Nor be half so happy as I.
CECIL SHARPE
Folk Songs from Somerset
You taught me first to beg, and now, methinks,
You teach me how a beggar should be answer'd.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Merchant of Venice
When beggars die, there are no comets seen;
The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Julius Caesar
A shameless beggar must have a short denial.
THOMAS FULLER
Gnomologia
All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate.
WALTER BENJAMIN
Reflections
This is neither begging, borrowing, nor robbery;
Yet it hath a twang of them all.
PHILIP MASSINGER
The Guardian
Beggars, beggars are the happy folk;
They love one another. Long live beggars!
PIERRE-JEAN DE BERANGER
Les Gueux