At this point

At this point, I'm laying on the floor begging God that if he just makes this work, I'll be good forever.

~PC World

Begging is

Begging is much more difficult than it looks. Contrary to popular belief, it’s a high art form that takes years of dedicated practice to master.

~Sol Luckman

I adopted

I adopted a begging posture that suggested genteel poverty combined with a certain affable nonchalance. People found this irresistible. They lavished money on me. Within days I exceeded ten dollars an hour. I began to save money and even, following Blue’s lead, tithed to the less fortunate. I became less pessimistic, thought less about how cruel the streets can be. I actually considered begging a legitimate career possibility.

~Sol Luckman

If you define

If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mr. Brave man, I guess I'm a coward.

~Jack Handy

It takes money

It takes money to make money, even begging. Humans are herd animals. If a stranger’s bleeding to death beside the road, most people won’t stop to offer a Band-Aid. But get the ball rolling with a couple Good Samaritans, and before you know it you’ve got more eager philanthropists than you know what to do with.

~Sol Luckman

I cannot

I cannot dig;
to beg I am ashamed.

~Luke 16:3

I adopted

'I adopted the old Navajo Indian trick of screaming and begging.'
Wisecracking in the face of adversity.

~Bob Hope

Remain hungry

Remain hungry but do not start begging.

~Turkish Proverb

I do not ask

I do not ask you much:
I beg cold comfort.

~William Shakespeare

I would willingly

I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passers-by to drop their unused minutes into it.

~Bernard Berenson

You are far away

You are far away from some, and You are close to others. Without You, there is not even a place to stand begging. See this yourself and verify it in your mind.

~Sri Guru Granth Sahib

Borrowing

Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.

~Doris Lessing

O Nanak

O Nanak, it is absurd to ask to be spared from pain by begging for comfort.

~Sri Guru Granth Sahib

I think I mentioned

I think I mentioned to Bob [Geldof] I could make love for eight hours. What I didn't say was that this included four hours of begging and then dinner and a movie.

~Sting

He who will not

He who will not apply himself to business, eventually discovers that he means to get his bread by cheating, stealing, or begging, or else is wholly void of reason.

~Ischomachus

Take pity on me

Take pity on me, O my Lord, Merciful to the meek. I am a beggar, begging for the dust of the feet of the Holy. Servant Nanak begs for this gift, let me meditate on the Lord, forever and ever.

~Sri Guru Granth Sahib

Better

Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.

~Jean de la Fontaine

Grant me the treasure

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.

~St. Francis of Assisi

As for begging

As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.

~Oscar Wilde

Never

Never stand begging for what you have the power to earn.

~Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra