Covering Quote by Khalil Gibran

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 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 entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.

— J. K. Rowling

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

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

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

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

Abject poverty is demeaning, is an assault on the dignity of those that suffer it. In the end it demeans us all. It makes…

— Nelson Mandela

For those who have lived on the edge of poverty all their lives, the semblance of poverty affected by the affluent is both incomprehensible…

— Lillian B. Rubin

Poverty didn't necessarily engender an envy of wealth; sometimes it might beget a passion for decency.

— Patricia Hampl

Poverty is a scorpion; it stings the poor and it also stings the men with high conscience who feel sad about the poverty; the…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

— Anonymous