Poverty Quotes
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 often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright
Benjamin Franklin
I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
Groucho Marx
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
George Bernard Shaw
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
Kin Hubbard
Real poverty is lack of books
Sidonie Gabrielle
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
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
As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
Theodore Parker
Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
Benjamin Franklin
Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
Mae West
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers
William James
Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things
Benjamin Franklin
George Bush doesn't care about black people, ... They're saying black families are looting and white families are just looking for food...they're giving the (Army) permission to shoot us
Kanye West
