Calamity Quote by William Hazlitt

Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person that is…

— Plutarch

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

That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything…

— Seneca the Younger

Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.

— Plutarch

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

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, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect.

— William Hazlitt

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 wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

— Anonymous

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

— Megan Lee

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

— Adam Smith

The poor have little; beggars, none; the rich, too much; enough, not one.

— Benjamin Franklin