Empty Quote by Elijah Fenton

O blessed poverty, who bestows eternal riches on those who love and embrace her!

— Clare of Assisi

Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things

— Benjamin Franklin

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

— Anonymous

Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent

— Plato

Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for.

— William Hazlitt

Poverty is a reaper: it harvests everything inside us that might have made us capable of social intercourse with others, and leaves us empty,…

— Muriel Barbery

Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.

— Publilius Syrus

Truly, whoever possesses little is that much less possessed: praised be a little poverty!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“What is Poverty? A hateful good; a mother of health; a putting away of cares; a discoverer of wisdom; business without injury; ownership without…

— Secundus the Silent

Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the…

— Honore de Balzac

Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.

— Plutarch