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Beggary: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Beggars must be no choosers.— BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER — Scornful Lady. Act V. Sc. 3.

Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report sometimes he did "go from door to door and sing ballads, with a company of boys about him."— BURTON — Anatomy of Melancholy. Pt. I. Sec. II. Mem. 4.

Qui timide rogat, Docet negare. He who begs timidly courts a refusal.— SENECA — Hippolytus. 593.

Mieux vaut goujat debout qu'empereur enterré. Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.— LA FONTAINE — La Matrone d' Ephèse.

Borgen ist nicht viel besser als betteln. Borrowing is not much better than begging.— LESSING — Nathan der Weise. II. 9.

Der wahre Bettler ist Doch einzig und allein der wahre König. The real beggar is indeed the true and only king.— LESSING — Nathan der Weise. II. 9.