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Poor Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.
- He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.
- A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
- Avarice is always poor.
- Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
- There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible.
- Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to…
- Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized nations, proceeds often…
- The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow.
- 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…
- Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
- You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than…
- To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from…
- The people is a very heterogeneous and confused mass of the wealthy and the poor, the wise and the foolish, the good and the bad
More Poor Quotes
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the world at… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
- I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor… — Winston Churchill
- He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor. — Samuel Johnson
- Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty… — Russell Baker
- Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse. — Abu Bakr
- I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be… — Bob Barker
- It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie