Dorothea Dix

Society during the last hundred years has been alternately perplexed and encouraged respecting the two great questions: how shall the criminal and pauper be disposed of in order to reduce crime and reform the criminal on the one hand and, on the other, to diminish pauperism and restore the pauper to useful citizenship?

American Activist

Denise Austin

I don't believe in strict diets or starving yourself; eat three meals a day. I believe in eating a good breakfast, a good lunch and a light dinner. Eat breakfast like a king, eat lunch like a queen, and eat dinner like a pauper. Your ultimate goal is to eat all the basic food groups in those three different meals.

American Author

F. Sionil Jose

In the Western tradition, the first writers were teachers and historians, vastly traveled, who spiced their reports with fantasies. They were also poets who sang and entertained prince and pauper.

Filipino Writer

Carter G. Woodson

The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers.

American Historian

Herman Melville

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.

American Novelist

Charlie Brooker

The sole purpose of a crown is to make anyone not wearing one feel like an insignificant pauper. They're obscene to the point of satire.

English Critic

Mark Twain

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

American Writer

Imelda Marcos

When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.

Celebrity

Suniel Shetty

I live by this rule - breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper.

Indian Actor

Boney Kapoor

I may have been in financial difficulties, but I'm not a pauper.

Indian Producer

Pauper often implies getting help, like welfare, from the government.

Public Assistance

In history, 'pauper' was a legal term for those supported at public expense.

Historical Usage

A pauper not only lacks money but also does not own valuable things.

Lack of Ownership

Being a pauper suggests an extreme level of poverty, without any means.

Absolute Poverty

The term can imply social downfall or loss of status due to poverty.

Social Impact

Pauper can describe someone who was once wealthy but is now poor.

Economic Descent

Calling someone a pauper can be disrespectful; use it with care.