38 Metaphors for poorest

And is this all that they can see? Poor is the joy such flattery raises, And, oh! how much unworthy thee!

Poor is a common adjective, of the positive degree, compared regularly, poor, poorer, poorest: and relates to nature; according to Rule 9th, which says, "Adjectives relate to nouns or pronouns."

Slight was the thing I bought, Small was the debt I thought, Poor was the loan at best God!

Poor is his garb, yet at his side a costly blade appears, 'Tis through security of mind no other arms he bears. 'Tis love that from Granada's home has sent him thus to rove, And for the lovely Zaida he languishes with love

And thus as the Poor are the Cause, without which the Rich could not pay this Tax, even the poorest Subject is upon this Account worth three Shillings yearly to the Prince.

The poorer are merely bundles of wrappings.

Poor and broken as he was, however, Monsieur de Sainte Aulaire was every inch a gentleman of the old school; and his little girl was proud of him, when he came to the school to see her.

Poor is his native land; but why does he love this land?

The poor are certainly no gainers by the substitution of philosophy for religion; and many of those who are forbidden to celebrate Christmas or Easter by a mass, will forget to do it by a donation.

The great and good Boerhaave used to say, as I remember very well, that the poor were his best patients; for God was their paymaster.

Why, what are all poor-rates and county-rates, if you will consider, but God's plain proof to us, that the poor are members of the same body as ourselves; and that if we will not help them of our own free will, we shall find it necessary to help them against our will: that if we will not pay a little to prevent them becoming pauperized or criminal, we must pay a great deal to keep them when they have become so?

The genuine poor are really people like you and me.

" "Why, sir, the poor of our day are the lepers of Christ's, and who among you Christian priests consorts with them?

Poor was the gardener,

The poor are good judges of professional qualifications.

But the poor are the poor, father, and have little leisure to make distinctions.

Among the thoughts of Leonardo is one which comes to mind with peculiar force before this work when we know its story: "Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master".

That winter the poor were very near starvation in the cities of Italy, and the peasants had to cut down their olive groves for fuel.

The rich may eat flesh in Lent, but the poor may not, albeit fish perhaps be much dearer.

Poor were the Expectations of the Studious, the Modest and the Good, if the Reward of their Labours were only to be expected from Man.

The poor are not quite such servile imitators as they take them for.

Poor and broken as he was, however, Monsieur de Sainte Aulaire was every inch a gentleman of the old school; and his little girl was proud of him, when he came to the school to see her.

Poor were the praise, in fortune to excel, Yet want the way to use that fortune well.

The poor and the sick, young girls exposed to temptation, all who needed temporal or spiritual help, were the special objects of her care and benevolence.

And is this all that they can see? Poor is the joy such flattery raises, And, oh! how much unworthy thee!

38 Metaphors for  poorest