Sue a beggar and catch a louse. [ Proverb ]

The beggar's bag has no bottom. [ German Proverb ]

An old courtier, a young beggar. [ Proverb ]

That is the way to beggar's bush. [ Proverb ]

A beggar's purse is always empty. [ Proverb ]

A young serving-man, an old beggar. [ Proverb ]

He who begs timidly courts a refusal. [ Seneca ]

A beggar pays a benefit with a louse. [ Proverb ]

Who's a prince or beggar in the grave? [ Otway ]

Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials. [ Colton ]

Better die a beggar than live a beggar. [ Proverb ]

Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself. [ Goldsmith ]

The slothful man is the beggar's brother. [ Proverb ]

You will scratch a beggar before you die. [ Proverb ]

Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

He'll soon be a beggar that cannot say nay. [ Proverb ]

A shameless beggar must have a short denial. [ Proverb ]

Better a living beggar than a buried emperor. [ La Fontaine ]

Without a rich heart wealth is an ugly beggar. [ Emerson ]

A prince wants a million, a beggar but a groat. [ Proverb ]

I know him as well as the beggar knows his dish. [ Proverb ]

The real beggar is indeed the true and only king. [ Lessing ]

To a beggar not even his own parents show affection. [ Proverb ]

Eat peas with the king, and cherries with the beggar. [ Proverb ]

Set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride a gallop. [ Burton ]

Set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the devil. [ Proverb ]

A sleeping beggar is just as happy as a sleeping king. [ J. Linen ]

Young prodigal in a coach will be old beggar bare-foot. [ Proverb ]

Love's voice doth sing as sweetly in a beggar as a king. [ Decker ]

A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge double pity. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]

Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks, but I thank you. [ William Shakespeare ]

Love is a beggar, who still begs when one has given him everything. [ Rochepedre ]

Nature takes as much pains in the forming of a beggar as an emperor. [ Proverb ]

No man troubleth the beggar with questioning his religion or politics. [ Lamb ]

The earth opens impartially her bosom to receive the beggar and the prince. [ Horace ]

The king is the least independent man in his dominions; the beggar the most so. [ J. C. and A. W. Hare ]

He that will lose his friend for a jest deserves to die a beggar by the bargain. [ Thomas Fuller ]

Nature takes as much pains in the womb for the forming of a beggar as an emperor. [ Proverb ]

High-built abundance, heap on heap! for what? To breed new wants, and beggar us the more,
Then, make a richer scramble for the throng. [ Young ]

Consider man, weigh well thy frame; the king, the beggar, are the same; dust formed us all. [ Gay ]

Many a beggar at the crossway, or gray-haired shepherd on the plain, hath more of the end of all wealth than hundreds who multiply the means. [ Tupper ]

Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? Ay Sir! 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 ]

A friend to everybody is often a friend to nobody, or else in his simplicity he robs his family to help strangers, and becomes brother to a beggar. There is wisdom in generosity, as in everything else. [ Spurgeon ]

Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. [ Franklin ]

I was walking in the street, a beggar stopped me, — a frail old man. His inflamed, tearful eyes, blue lips, rough rags, disgusting sores . . . oh, how horribly poverty had disfigured the unhappy creature! He stretched out to me his red, swollen, filthy hand. He groaned and whimpered for alms. I felt in all my pockets. No purse, watch, or handkerchief did I find. I had left them all at home. The beggar waited and his out-stretched hand twitched and trembled slightly. Embarrassed and confused, I seized his dirty hand and pressed it. Don't be vexed with me, brother; I have nothing with me, brother. The beggar raised his bloodshot eyes to mine; his blue lips smiled, and he returned the pressure of my chilled fingers. Never mind, brother, stammered he; thank you for this — this, too, was a gift, brother. I felt that I, too, had received a gift from my brother. [ Ivan Tourgueneff ]