Beggars

(132 votes)   If begging should unfortunately be thy lot, knock at the large gates only.

Arabian Proverbs
Sayings of Arabian Origin

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(110 votes)   Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(110 votes)   God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it.

Georges Bernanos
1888-1948, French Novelist, Political Writer

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(97 votes)   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
1982-1940, German Critic, Philosopher

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(97 votes)   Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom.

Anzia Yezierska
1885-1970, Polish Writer

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(90 votes)   As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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