Poverty Quotes
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Woody Allen
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
Kahlil Gibran
Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things
Benjamin Franklin
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers
William James
Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
Mae West
Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
Benjamin Franklin
As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
Theodore Parker
Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty consists in feeling poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a true scale would be found very indigent and ragged.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nor is there on earth a more powerful advocate for vice than poverty.
Oliver Goldsmith
Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for.
William Hazlitt
Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men, and rocks them up to manhood; and this meager foster-mother remains their faithful companion throughout life.
Heinrich Heine
One solitary philosopher may be great, virtuous, and happy in the depth of poverty, but not a whole people.
Isaak Iselin
A man guilty of poverty easily believes himself suspected.
Samuel Johnson
