Poverty Quotes

2493 Poverty quotes by 1419 unique authors

It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain… — Samuel Johnson
In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands… — Mary McCarthy
Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty. — Juvenal
Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth. — Henry David Thoreau
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy,… — Oscar Wilde
In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization. — Oscar Wilde
No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. — Woodrow Wilson
The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not… — George Bernard Shaw
The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the… — George Bernard Shaw
There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich. — Seneca the Younger
The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
There's a point of poverty at which the spirit isn't with the body all the time. It finds the body really too unbearable. So it's… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought,… — William Cobbett
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… — Charles Dickens
One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it. — Finley Peter Dunne
It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable. — George Eliot
Poverty consist in feeling poor. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise. — Bertolt Brecht
Poverty is the step-mother of genius. — Josh Billings
I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design. — Josh Billings

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