Poverty Quotes
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Poverty is a career for lot's of well paid people (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)
Poverty is the step-mother of genius. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
The hermit doesn't sleep at night, in love with the blue of the vacant moon. The cool of the breeze that rustles the trees rustles him too. (Quote by - Ching-an)
Poverty is the schoolmaster of character. (Quote by - Antiphanes)
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable and others extremely difficult. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise. (Quote by - Bertolt Brecht)
When you're really poor, everything you see is something you can't have. (Quote by - Patrick Duncan)
Poverty is less a matter of income than of prospects. While the incomes of the poor have steadily risen through Great Society largesse, their prospects have plummeted as families have broken into dependent fragments. (Quote by - George Gilder)
Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances. It is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for tomorrow. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. (Quote by - John Dryden)
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved. (Quote by - Mother Teresa)
I wasn't born in a log cabin, but my family moved into one as soon as they could afford it. (Quote by - Melville D. Landon)
Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Patiently bear the burden of poverty. (Quote by - Dionysius Cato)
It is unmistakable madness to live in poverty only to die rich. (Quote by - Juvenal)
Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful. (Quote by - Thomas Robert Malthus)
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No, if it were, men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It's a blunder, though, and is punished as such. (Quote by - Jerome K. Jerome)
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. (Quote by - Kin Hubbard)
It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends $500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only $53 annually on the victims of poverty. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Poverty is the worst form of violence. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
Thank God for poverty That makes and keeps us free, And lets us go our unobtrusive way, Glad of the sun and rain, Upright, serene, humane, Contented with the fortune of a day. (Quote by - William Bliss Carman)
There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty. (Quote by - George Farquhar)
I am as poor as Job, my lord, but not so patient. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor! (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.)
One solitary philosopher may be great, virtuous, and happy in the depth of poverty, but not a whole people. (Quote by - Isaak Iselin)
The poor will always be with you. (Quote by - Bible)
Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: but with poverty everything becomes frightful. (Quote by - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux)
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty. (Quote by - Juvenal)
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers (Quote by - William James)
It is poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish. (Quote by - Mother Teresa)
If you've ever really been poor, you remain poor at heart all your life. (Quote by - Arnold Bennett)
Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty--the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases. (Quote by - Eugene O'neill)
The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
As society advances the standard of poverty rises. (Quote by - Theodore Parker)
Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough. (Quote by - Henry George)
Living from hand to mouth. (Quote by - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas)
The mother of revolution and crime is poverty. (Quote by - Aristotle)
In wealth, many friends; in poverty, not even relatives. (Quote by - Japanese Proverb)
Hunger is insolent, and will be fed. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord God of hosts. (Quote by - Bible)
There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty. (Quote by - Andrew Cuomo)
O God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap! (Quote by - Thomas Hood)
So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man. (Quote by - Bible)
Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay him again. (Quote by - Bible)
As poor as a church mouse. (Quote by - English Phrase)
Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble. (Quote by - Bible)
This is one of the bitter curses of poverty: it leaves no right to be generous. (Quote by - George Gissing)
Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life. (Quote by - Honore de Balzac)
I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life. (Quote by - Anatole France)
Short of genius, a rich man cannot imagine poverty. (Quote by - Charles Peguy)
For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always. (Quote by - Bible)
Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit. (Quote by - Eli Khamarov)
The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream (Quote by - Harry Kemp)
And plenty makes us poor. (Quote by - John Dryden)
I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty. (Quote by - Groucho Marx)
I hope we realize that the people of New Orleans weren't just abandoned during the hurricane. They were abandoned long ago — to murder and mayhem in the streets, to substandard schools, to dilapidated housing, to inadequate health care, to a pervasive sense of hopelessness. (Quote by - Barack Obama)
The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
One must be poor to know the luxury of living. (Quote by - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas)
The beggarly last doit. (Quote by - William Cowper)
Poverty is no sin. (Quote by - George Edward Herbert)
There were times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails. (Quote by - Spencer Tracy)
Who, being loved, is poor? (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of man. (Quote by - Henry George)
Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty consists in feeling poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a true scale would be found very indigent and ragged. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache. (Quote by - Mae West)
Over the hill to the poor-house I'm trudgin' my weary way. (Quote by - Will Carleton)
Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. (Quote by - Thomas Gray)
The poor always ye have with you. (Quote by - Bible)
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)
Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms For bread, but have some space to think and feel Like moral and immortal creatures. (Quote by - Philip James Bailey)
Poor men's reasons are not heard. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
The greatest man in history was the poorest. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
He who knows how to be poor knows everything. (Quote by - Jules Michelet)
Real poverty is lack of books (Quote by - Sidonie Gabrielle)
Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent (Quote by - Plato)
Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil. (Quote by - Christian Nestell Bovee)
Bed is the poor man's opera. (Quote by - Italian proverb)
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. (Quote by - Frederick Douglass)
Nor is there on earth a more powerful advocate for vice than poverty. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
The rich would have to eat money, but luckily the poor provide food. (Quote by - Russian proverb)
He is now fast rising from affluence to poverty. (Quote by - S. L. Clemens)
Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away. (Quote by - Robert Browning)
Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Poverty - one thing money can't buy. (Quote by - Lynwood L. Giacomini)
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous. (Quote by - Juvenal)
Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts. (Quote by - Apuleius)
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. (Quote by - Aristotle)
Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men, and rocks them up to manhood; and this meager foster-mother remains their faithful companion throughout life. (Quote by - Heinrich Heine )
Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity. (Quote by - Jean-Paul Sartre)
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of. (Quote by - Confucius)
A man guilty of poverty easily believes himself suspected. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order; Bleak blows the blast--your hat has got a hole in it. So have your breeches. (Quote by - George Canning)
Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty. (Quote by - Bible)
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people: it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. (Quote by - Walter Bagehot)
Poverty is the mother of health. (Quote by - George Herbert)
