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Read our intriguing bum quotes collection on the plight of poor, needy, and helpless from famous authors, personalities, and thinkers throughout history.
Best Bum Quotes and Sayings
The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.
– Charles Lamb
If you’re going to be a bum, be the biggest. If you’re going to blow it, blow it big.
– Broderick Crawford
The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor.
– George Moore
A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
– Georges Bernanos
The poor have little, beggars none, the rich too much, enough not one.
– Benjamin Franklin
The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.
– Theodor Adorno
Many a bum show has been saved by the flag.
– George M. Cohan
Bums are the well to do of this day. They didn’t have as far to fall.
– Jackson Pollock
To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
– William Cobbett
The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
– Jean-Paul Sartre
The bum was justified in his actions because he was homeless and poor. He was allowed to beg for money because the circumstances made it acceptable. Society had shunned him and he was owed that much.
– Karina Halle
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