The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make…

Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.

— Juvenal

Poverty, Poetry, and new Titles of Honor, make Men ridiculous

— Benjamin Franklin

Psychologically, it's difficult to ever shrug off the effects of extreme hardship or poverty, family bereavement, chronic ill health or the memory of violent…

— Dawn Foster

The texture and hardship of poverty and eviction is something that I think left the deepest impression on me, and I hope that I…

— Matthew Desmond

There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Young women that would not be thought coquettish, and old men that would not be ridiculous, should never talk of love, as if they…

— Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

“Men were ridiculous, in all cultures and across time.”

— Magnus Flyte

“a herd of old men with shriveled balls and spotted skin and young men with ridiculous hair.”

— George R.R. Martin

Ask for a valiant heart which has banished the fear of death, which looks upon length of days as one of the least of…

— Juvenal

It isn't easy to suffer failure, go through all the pain and the hardship.

— Abhinav Bindra

Firstly, do not fear hardship, and secondly, do not fear death.

— Mao Zedong

God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure.

— Martin Luther

Broken by hardships, disappointments and tragedy, people can become discouraged and cynical. But lives can also be mended. Put back together well, they won't…

— Steve Goodier

“What can we do in any hardship? We can hope with prayerful praise.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita