Famous quotes containing the word beggar:
“In the race for wealth, a neighbor tries to outdo his neighbor, but this strife is good for men. For the potter envies potter, and the carpenter the carpenter, and the beggar rivals the beggar, and the singer the singer.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)
“The beggar gazes at her round navel
and she at the moon, his face,
while crows are pecking
at her ladle
and his begging-bowl.”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)
“His poor self,
A dedicated beggar to the air,
With his disease of all-shunned poverty,
Walks, like contempt, alone.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)