Honour Quote by Mathieu Kerekou

We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime

— Christian Nestell Bovee

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man.

— Washington Irving

As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

— Pericles

The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it.

— Dolly Parton

Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our…

— Ann Radcliffe

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient

— Sydney Smith

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

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 us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

— Sydney Smith

Poverty is not simply having no money - it is isolation, vulnerability, humiliation and mistrust.

— Megan Lee

Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty.

— P. J. O'Rourke