Gifts make beggars bold. [ Proverb ]

Beggars fear no rebellion. [ Proverb ]

Lawyers don't love beggars. [ Proverb ]

Beggars must not be choosers. [ Proverb ]

Beggars can never be bankrupts. [ Proverb ]

Beggars may sing before a thief. [ Proverb ]

Beggars never are out of their way. [ Proverb ]

Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials. [ Colton ]

If wishes would bide, beggars would ride. [ Proverb ]

Beggars and borrowers must be no choosers. [ Proverb ]

Conceit, more rich in matter than in words,
Brags of his substance, not of ornament:
They are but beggars that can count their worth. [ William Shakespeare ]

If wishes were thrushes, beggars might eat birds. [ Proverb ]

When beggars die, there are no comets seen;
The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes. [ William Shakespeare ]

Beggars are the vermin that attach themselves to the rich.

The king of good-fellows, is appointed for the queen of beggars. [ Proverb ]

Beggars, actors in farces, buffoons, and all that sort of people. [ Horace ]

He that has no fools, knaves, nor beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning. [ Proverb ]

He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked. [ Macaulay ]

If you could throw as an alms to those who would use it well the time that you fritter away, how many beggars would become rich! [ Elizabeth, Queen of Roumania ]

The greatest cosmopolites are generally the neediest beggars, and they who embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part, love nothing but their narrow self. [ Herder ]