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
A beggar's life is for a king.
FRANCIS DAVISON
Song
Beggars breed and rich men feed.
JOHN RAY
English Proverbs