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Benjamin, Walter
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.
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Benjamin, Walter
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.
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Bernanos, Georges
God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it.
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Bernanos, Georges
God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it.
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Ephraim Gotthold Lessing
The real beggar is indeed the true and only king. Ger., Der wahre Bettler ist Doch einzig und allein der wahre Konig.
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James Russell Lowell
A beggar through the world am I, From place to place I wander by. Fill up my pilgrim's scrip for me, For Christ's sweet sake and charity.
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Jean de la Fontaine
Better a living beggar than a buried emperor. Fr., Mieux vaut goujat debout qu'empereur enterre.
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Nietzsche, Friedrich
Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.
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Nietzsche, Friedrich
Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.
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Old Song
I'd just as soon a beggar as king, And the reason I'll tell you for why; A king cannot swagger, not drink like a beggar, Nor be half so happy as I. . . . . Let the back and side go bare.
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Proverb, Arabian
If begging should unfortunately be thy lot, knock at the large gates only.
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Proverb, Arabian
If begging should unfortunately be thy lot, knock at the large gates only.
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Robert Burton
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.
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Robert Burton
Set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride a gallop. Set a beggar on horseback, and he'll outride the Devil.
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Robert Greene
Set a beggar on horse backe, they saie, and hee will neuer alight.
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Robert Herrick
To get thine ends, lay bashfulnesse aside; Who fears to aske, doth teach to be deny'd.
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