Poverty Quotes - Page 26

To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.

I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.

He is not poor who has the use of necessary things. [Lat., Pauper enim non est cui rerum suppetet usus.]

For avarice begins where poverty ends.

I am a sensitive person, so it is actually saddening to learn that these poverty-stricken families are most of the time mistreated or looked down upon. Help the poor, like how you would want to be helped if you were in their position.

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.

Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity.

There is nothing perfectly secure but poverty.

Capitalism will continue to eliminate mass poverty in more and more places and to an increasingly marked extent if it is merely permitted to do so.

The only real cure for poverty is production.

Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.

Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.

I have repeatedly stressed that we have the knowledge to reduce hunger and poverty.

Any time you have poverty, joblessness, sub-par public schools, and a lack of opportunity, you're going to have a high rate of crime.

Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily.

There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.

This so much joy! This so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!

O blissful poverty! Nature, too partial! to thy lot assigns Health, freedom, innocence, and downy peace, Her real goods; and only mocks the great, With empty pageantries!

We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be.

Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty.

I still can't go over a subway grating without looking down to see if there is some money there.

poverty denotes a lack of necessities and simplicity a lack of needs.

Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance