quotations about beggars & begging
Beggar is jealous of beggar, and minstrel of minstrel.
HESIOD
Works and Days
I am ashamed always to be begging for the same thing.
OVID
Epistulae ex Ponto
You'd be surprised how difficult it is to ask alms of a stranger when you've never done it before, what a psychological barrier separates the honest man from the panhandler.
CORNEL WOOLRICH
"Dusk to Dawn"
Beggars are like fleas, unnoticed unless they bite.
ERIK CHRISTIAN HAUGAARD
The Boy and the Samurai
Beggars breed and rich men feed.
JOHN RAY
English Proverbs
A beggar's life is for a king.
FRANCIS DAVISON
Song