Beggers, Begging, Panhandling Quotes

There are three ways by which an individual can get wealth—by work, by gift, and by theft. And, clearly, the reason why the workers get so little is that the beggars and thieves get so much.

I'm not begging to be remembered or whatever. I did my thing, and if you remember, that's even better. But if you don't, there's so many other things going on.

Too many guys are over here begging for people and trying to chase people to fight, this and that, begging for money fights. You become your own damn money fight.

If I am nominated [for the presidency], I will not run. If I am elected, I will not serve. But if you beg me, I just might reconsider.

Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.

We brought disaster upon... Arab refugees, by inviting them and bringing pressure to bear upon them to leave... We have rendered them dispossessed... We have accustomed them to begging... We have participated in lowering their moral and social level... Then we exploited them in executing crimes of murder, arson, and throwing bombs upon... men, women and children - all this in service of political purposes...

If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.

My dad was a Buddhist when I was young, so when I was begging to become a Catholic, he was saying no and imparting Buddhist precepts.

No more fear. No more begging and pleading.

My father's a deacon, my mother's a choir director, so I grew up in the church and singing in the choir, begging my mom if I could have a solo.

It is better to die fighting than to live begging.

No one capable of maintaining himself by art or labour pretend to be poor and beg his food on pain of imprisonment.

A man never got a woman back... not by begging on his knees.

What could be the reason that so many should be permitted to beg who are willing to work?

With what moral authority can they [the U. S.] speak of human rights — the rulers of a nation in which the millionaire and beggar coexist; the Indian is exterminated; the black man is discriminated against; the woman is prostituted; and the great masses of Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, and Latin Americans are scorned, exploited, and humiliated?

I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam around with a begging bowl and ask for food.

We are all beggars, each in his own way.

I'm demanding to be prosecuted. I'm begging to be prosecuted for perjury.

It is all very well to idealise poverty and associate wisdom with begging bowls, or virtue with low estate. However, those who have done this (Buddhists, Christians, Communists and other fanatics) have dead ended or are dead ending

Africa's salvation doesn't lie in begging and begging for more aid, and as an African, I find it very, very humiliating.

I was born in New York, but I grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut - that's where I went to school. I remember begging my way into choir in the 3rd grade, because you're not supposed to get in until 4th grade.

It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Please, sir, I want some more.

A wandering family [in Ireland] will fix themselves under a dry bank and with a few sticks, furze, fern, etc,, make up a hovel much worse than an English pigsty, and support themselves how they can by work, begging, and stealing.