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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