“ He wrapped himself in quotations — as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors. ”
- Rudyard Kipling- Copy
“ In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum. ”
- John Carpenter- Copy
“ I just wake up and say, "You're a bum, go do something worthwhile today.". ”
- Garth Brooks- Copy
“ Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar, And the creature run from the cur: There, thou might'st behold the great image of authority; A dog's obeyed in office. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
“ Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis. ”
- Marlon Brando- Copy
“ 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- Copy
“ Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot!A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot.Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again!The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on. ”
- William Butler Yeats- Copy
“ Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day? ”
- Ralph Hodgson- Copy
“ Will without power is like children playing at soldiers. - quoted by Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Rovers (act IV). ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
“ The Sun in London ran a front page declaring my bum a national treasure. I really did laugh at that. Its not like it can actually do anything, except wiggle. ”
- Kylie Minogue- Copy
“ There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought — a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities! ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
“ Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb of that belief in a few simple notions you must cling to if you want to live decently and would like to die easy! ”
- Joseph Conrad- Copy
“ You obviously don't know what an Old Man of the Sea great wealth is. It is not a fat purse and time to spend it. Its owner finds himself beset on every side, at every hour, wherever he goes, by persistent pleaders, like beggars in Bombay, each demanding that he invest or give away part of his wealth… ”
- Robert Anson Heinlein- Copy
“ What think you, if he were conveyed to bed, Wrapped in sweet clothes, rings put upon his fingers, A most delicious banquet by his bed, And brave attendants near him when he wakes, Would not the beggar then forget himself? ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
“ All things that are, Are with more spirit chased than enjoy'd. How like a younker or a prodigal The scarfed bark puts from her native bay, Hugg'd and embraced by the strumpet wind! How like the prodigal doth she return, With over-weather'd ribs and ragged sails, Lean, rent, and beggar'd by the strumpet wind! - The Merchant of Venice… ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
“ A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
“ All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth. ”
- Antonin Artaud- Copy
“ A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
“ As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
“ Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
“ Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom. ”
- Anzia Yezierska- Copy
“ God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, they don't know it. ”
- Georges Bernanos- Copy
“ Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books. ”
- W. H. Auden- Copy
“ Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall. ”
- Jackson Pollock- Copy
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