| Author |
Quotes |
| Ephraim Gotthold Lessing | Borrowing is not much better than begging. |
| Ephraim Gotthold Lessing | The real beggar is indeed the true and only king. |
| James Russell Lowell | A beggar through the world am I, From place to place I wander by. Fill up my pilgrim's scrip for me, For Christ's sweet sake and charity. |
| Jean de la Fontaine | Better a living beggar than a buried emperor. |
| Old Song | I'd just as soon a beggar as king, And the reason I'll tell you for why; A king cannot swagger, not drink like a beggar, Nor be half so happy as I. . . . . Let the back and side go bare. |
| Robert Burton | Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report sometimes he did "go from door to door and sing ballads, with a company of boys about him." |
| Robert Burton | Set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride a gallop. |
| Robert Greene | Set a beggar on horse backe, they saie, and hee will neuer alight. |
| Robert Herrick | To get thine ends, lay bashfulnesse aside; Who fears to aske, doth teach to be deny'd. |
| Thomas Moss | A pampered menial drove me from the door. |
| William Shakespeare | Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks, but I thank you, and sure, dear friends, my thanks are too dear a halfpenny. |
| William Shakespeare | It needs not nor it boots thee not, proud queen, Unless the adage must be verified, That beggars mounted run their horse to death. |
| William Shakespeare | I see, sir, you are liberal in offers. You taught me first to beg, and now methinks You teach me how a beggar should be answered. |
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