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.
Beg-begglng Quotes
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.
Beggars should be abolished entirely! Verily, it is annoying to give to them and it is annoying not to give to them.
The petition of an empty hand is dangerous.
