Beggars

Famous quotes containing the word beggars:

“But beggars should be utterly abolished! Verily, it is annoying to give to them and it is annoying not to give to them.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Shakespeare carries us to such a lofty strain of intelligent activity, as to suggest a wealth which beggars his own; and we then feel that the splendid works which he has created, and which in other hours we extol as a sort of self-existent poetry, take no stronger hold of real nature than the shadow of a passing traveller on the rock. The inspiration which uttered itself in Hamlet and Lear could utter things as good from day to day, for ever.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)