Poverty Quotes
One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.
To a man with an empty stomach food is God.
When poverty comes in the door love flies out the window.
Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.
In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed wealth is something to be ashamed of.
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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.
Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.
The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
Poverty consist in feeling poor.
A hungry man is not a free man.
When the rich wage war it is the poor who die.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
Empty pockets make empty heads.
Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.
No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
Society comprises two classes: those who have more food than appetite, and those who have more appetite than food.
Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.
I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.
Painless poverty is better than embittered wealth.
To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen to the falling rain, and crouch for warmth beneath the lee of some old barn or rick, or in the hollow of a tree; are dismal things -- but not so dismal as the wandering up and down where shelter is, and beds and sleepers are by thousands; a houseless rejected creature.
It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.
Not he who has little, but he who wishes more, is poor.
The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.
It is not difficult for the rich to do good deeds.
But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.
Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.