Beg-begglng Quotes

Beggars can never be bankrupts.

Beggars fear no rebellion.

Beggars breed and rich men feed.

Beggars can’t be choosers.

God help the rich, the poor can beg.

It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.

The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.

All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.

What signifies, says someone, giving halfpence to beggars? They only lay it out in gin or tobacco. And why should they be denied such sweeteners of their existence? it is surely very savage to refuse them every possible avenue to pleasure, reckoned too coarse for our own acceptance. Life is a pill which none of […]

Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.