BEGGAR AND BEGGING

Related Subjects: Borrowing, Charity, Favor, Gifts, Hunger, Poverty

1. Better it is to die than to beg.—Apocrypha: Ecclesiasticus
   

2. Beggars must be no choosers.—BEAUMONT & FLETCHER, Scornful Lady
   

3. The horseleech hath two daughters, crying, Give, give.—Bible, Proverbs 30:15
   

4. Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop.—ROBERT BURTON, Anatomy of Melancholy
   

5. Jacob God's Beggar was, and so we wait
   (Though ne'er so rich) all beggars at His Gate.—ROBERT HERRICK, Beggars
   

6. The petition of an empty hand is dangerous.—JOHN OF SALISBURY, Policraticus

7. Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.—LA FONTAINE, La Matrone d'Ephese
   

8. The real beggar is indeed the true and only king.—LESSING, Nathan der Weise
   

9. A beggar through the world am I,
   From place to place I wander by.
   Fill up my pilgrim's scrip for me.
   For Christ's sweet sake and charity.—LOWELL, The Beggar
   

10. Gie a beggar a bed and he'll repay you with a louse.—Proverb
    

11. Neither beg of him who has been a beggar, nor serve him who has been a servant.—Proverb
    

12. Better to die a beggar than live beggar.—Proverb
    

13. Beggars can never be bankrupts.—Proverb
    

14. Beggars fear no rebellion.—Proverb
    

15. Beggars must not be choosers.—Proverb
    

16. Begging a courtesy is selling liberty.—Proverb
    

17. Beggars breed and rich men feed.—Proverb
    

18. Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
    

19. Beggars mounted run their horse to death.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VI
    

20. Well, whiles I am a beggar I will rail
    And say there is no sin but to be rich;
    And being rich, my virtue then shall be
    To say there is no vice but beggary.—SHAKESPEARE, King John
    

21. I see, Sir, you are liberal in offers:
    You taught me first to beg; and now, methinks,
    You teach me how a beggar should be answer'd.—SHAKESPEARE, Merchant of Venice