Poverty is the curse of ancient but numerous lineages.

“Poverty is a curse. Don't call it. It takes few generations to come out from the curse of poverty.”

— Nazmul Ahmed Noyon

In regard of the rich grace and wisdom of his love toward his people; for who sees not, but that it is a curse…

— Thomas Shepard

You can't be rich with a poor mentality!

— Lucky

“Mostly the greedy rich is responsible for the poor’s poverty!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of…

— Josiah Strong

No matter how well-born, how intelligent, how highly educated, how virtuous, how rich, how refined, the women of to-day constitutea political class below that…

— Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

24.9 percent of American children live in poverty, while the proportions in Germany, France and Italy are 8.6, 7.4 and 10.5 percent. And once…

— Will Hutton

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

— William J. H. Boetcker

When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.

— Zong Qinghou

There are no causes of poverty. It is the rest state, that which happens when you don't do anything. If you want to experience…

— Madsen Pirie

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at…

— Plato

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it…

— Samuel Johnson

Every one is weary, the poore in seeking, the rich in keeping, the good in learning.

— George Herbert

Who, being loved, is poor?

— Oscar Wilde

“Poor people do not go on holiday; they go home.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana