Beggarly Quotes

Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth. - Arthur Murphy

The boy, a bare-legged beggarly son of a gun. - C. S. Calverley

No one is poor who does not think they are, however, if in prosperity with impatience they desire more, and proclaim their wants they disclose their beggarly condition. - Jeremy Taylor

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition. - Jeremy Taylor

In my experience, only third-rate intelligence is sent to Legislatures to make laws, because the first-rate article will not leave important private interests go unwatched to go and serve the public for a beggarly four or five dollars a day, and a mi. - Mark Twain

How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed! - Walt Whitman

He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought; and as a wise householder commands his servants and invites his guests, so must he learn to command his desires and to say, with authority, what thoughts he shall admit into the mansion of his soul. - James Allen

But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? / Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. - Bible

Bush, son of Bush, eliminating Israel is the duty of every believer. Beggarly clerics... and every bankrupt propaganda machine is trying to convince the people to bring change by peaceful means, but the Islamic nation knows that its path is jihad (holy war) and the bearing of arms. - Ayman Al-Zawahri