Casts Quote by Joseph Addison

“Poverty was our spirit animal.”

— Sherman Alexie

There are those... who enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of both the means and the motivation to improve their…

— Aga Khan IV

Poverty is never dishonourable in itself, but only when it is a mark of sloth, intemperance, extravagance, or thoughtlessness. When, on the other hand,…

— Plutarch

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 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

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

“The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially”

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The greatest poverty is not to live In a physical world, to feel that one's desire Is too difficult to tell from despair.

— Wallace Stevens

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

It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.

— Seneca the Younger

Wisdom adorneth riches and casteth a shadow over poverty.

— Socrates