Bags Quote by Benjamin Franklin

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse…

— Washington Irving

It is not poverty so much as pretence that harasses a ruined man--the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse--the keeping up…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

Poverty hides itself in thought before it surrenders to purses.

— Khalil Gibran

Poverty is rather a state of mind. No man who possess this mentality can outwardly command abundance.

— Ore Abayomi

Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.

— Anonymous

Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently…

— Samuel Johnson

Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.

— Horace

“Fundamentally, poverty is a denial of choices and opportunities, a violation of human dignity. It means lack of basic capacity to participate effectively in…

— Dean Karlan

Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.

— H. L. Mencken

Poverty is a result of lack of opportunity. Lack of opportunity is about being without power, without being in a position to make choices.

— Winnie Byanyima

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts…

— J. K. Rowling

Voluntary poverty isn't going around with some burlap bag around you and imitating the poor. It means being indifferent to the material, doing as…

— Dorothy Day