“There is a saying in Tibetan that “at the door of the miserable rich man sleeps the contented beggar.””

“He sat down next door in the seat she had left and watched the grim suburbs of Philadelphia showing their sores, like beggars, to the rich train.”

“I saw rich beggars and poor beggars, proud beggars and humble beggars, fat beggars and thin beggars, healthy beggars and sick beggars, whole beggars and crippled beggars, wise beggars and stupid beggars. I saw amateur beggars and professional beggars. A professional beggar is a beggar who begs for a living.”

“The doors will be forever barred and bolted against those miserable Democrats who scoff the rights of man.”

“I noticed rich people are the biggest beggars - for attention.”

“To find riches is a beggar’s dream, but to find love is the dream of kings.”

“People are fascinated by the rich: Shakespeare wrote plays about kings, not beggars.”

“Stand not a beggar before the door of science seeking power that kills more than heals.”

“There are two things that kill a genius — a fatal disease and contentment. When a man is contented he goes to sleep. Voltaire had no chance to be contented, and so he wrote eternally and unceasingly, more than any other man in the history of the world.”

“The prince's robes and beggar's rags,
Are toadstools on the miser's bags.
A truth that's told with bad intent,
Beats all the lies you can invent”