Vagrants Quotes

An evil and a reproach to our municipality, for which the laws and ordinances afford no adequate remedy. I allude to the constantly increasing number of vagrants, idle and vicious children of both sexes, who infest our public thoroughfares, hotels, docks, &c.; children who are growing up in ignorance and profligacy, only destined to a life of misery, shame and crime, and ultimately to a felon's doom. Their numbers are almost incredible, and to those whose business and habits do not permit them a searching scrutiny, the degrading and disgusting practices of these almost infants, in the school of vice, prostitution and rowdyism, would certainly be beyond belief… they never see the inside of a schoolroom; and so far as our excellent system of public education is concerned, and which may be truly said to be the foundation stone of our free institutions, is to them an entire nullity. Left in many instances to roam day and night wherever their inclination leads them, a large proportion of these juvenile vagrants are in the daily practice of pilfering wherever opportunity offers, and begging when they cannot steal.

Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.

Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought.

Rumor is a vagrant without a home, and lives upon what it can pick up.

What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.

The mind is a vagrant thing.... Thinking is not analogous to a person working in a laboratory who invents something on company time.

But the vagrant owns the whole vast earth that ends only at the nonexistent horizon, and his empire is an intangible one, for his domination and enjoyment of it are things of the spirit.

The legislation of the age about " vagabonds" is written in blood. The only remedy suggested was to punish the vagrant by cruel tortures—by whipping and branding. Even death was resorted to after a second or third offence; and though these penalties proved very ineffectual, the system was not abandoned till the law of 43 Elizabeth recognized that punishment had failed as a remedy

Men and women of high professional standing were reduced to the status of vagrants, unable to find employment and forced to eat the bitter bread of public or private charity.

I'm not a vagrant... I'm a hobo. Big difference.

Imprisonment with hard labour for one month for idle and disorderly persons, including anyone who is able to maintain himself and his family entirely or partly by work or other means, and who willfully refuses or neglects to do so, so that he himself or a member of his family whom he is bound to support, becomes chargeable to the parish. This class includes any person wandering abroad, begging in public places, or employing children for that purpose

The true vagrant is the only king above all comparison.