Famous poverty quotations

   A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.  Nice Word by W.C. Fields

   Hunger makes a thief of any man.  Meaningful Quotation by Pearl S. Buck

Inspirational Sayings, Motivational Quotes, Great Words, Witty Proverbs
   We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition.  Good Quote by William James

   Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving.  Wise Phrase by O. Henry, Heart of the West, 1907

   Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.  Wise Phrase by Sydney Smith, His Wit and Wisdom, 1900

   One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.  Famous Saying by Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, 1929

   There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.  Nice Word by Mahatma Gandhi

   Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.  Meaningful Quotation by Eli Khamarov, Lives of the Cognoscenti

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

   The poor are poor because the rich are rich.  Wise Phrase by Author Unknown

   It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.  Wise Phrase by Bill Vaughan

   However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.  Famous Saying by Henry David Thoreau

   Every man has a right to be poor.  Nice Word by Richard Jefferies

   We didn't starve, but we didn't eat chicken unless we were sick, or the chicken was.  Meaningful Quotation by Bernard Malamud

   To a man with an empty stomach food is God.  Good Quote by Gandhi

   Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all.  Wise Phrase by Eva Perón

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

   For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.  Famous Saying by John Gardner

   You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.  Nice Word by P.J. O'Rourke, A Parliament of Whores

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

   Affluence creates poverty.  Good Quote by Marshall McLuhan

   Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.  Wise Phrase by William Shakespeare

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

   The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied...but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.  Famous Saying by John Berger

   Poverty is the mother of crime.  Nice Word by Marcus Aurelius



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