Beggar, n. One who has relied on the assistance of his friends.
Beg-begglng Quotes
“I beg your pardon?” said Alice. “It isn’t respectable to beg,” said the King.
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
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 […]
