Poverty Quotes, Sayings about the Poor

There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty – Andrew Cuomo.

Poverty is the schoolmaster of character – Antiphanes.

My poverty is not complete: it lacks me – Antonio Porchia.

The mother of revolution and crime is poverty – Aristotle.

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him – Benjamin Franklin.

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright – Benjamin Franklin.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin – Charles Darwin.

Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn’t commit – Eli Khamarov.

Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all – Eva Peron.

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty – Groucho Marx.

The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream – Harry Kemp.

Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood – Heinrich Heine.

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred – John Gardner.

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty – Juvenal.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed – Kin Hubbard.

Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache – Mae West.

Poverty is the worst form of violence – Mahatma Gandhi.

Poverty is the mother of crime – Marcus Aurelius.

Remember the poor – it costs nothing – Mark Twain.

Affluence creates poverty – Marshall McLuhan.

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved – Mother Teresa.

It is poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish – Mother Teresa.

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty – Napoleon Hill.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that – Norman Vincent Peale.

Who, being loved, is poor? – Oscar Wilde.

Hunger makes a thief of any man – Pearl S. Buck.

You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money – P.J. O’Rourke.

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent – Plato.

A man isn’t poor if he can still laugh – Raymond Hitchcock.

Every man has a right to be poor – Richard Jefferies.

Poverty is a career for lot’s of well paid people – Ronald Reagan.

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence – Samuel Johnson.

Real poverty is lack of books – Sidonie Gabrielle.

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient – Sydney Smith.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money – W.C. Fields.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time – Willem de Kooning.

But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly, because you tread on my dreams – William Butler Yeats.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers – William James.

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough – William Shakespeare.

There is something about poverty that smells like death – Zora Neale Hurston.

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