Poverty Quotes

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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Poverty

I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by a

I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

Poverty

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Poverty

Every Night and every MornSome to Misery are born.Every Morn

Every Night and every MornSome to Misery are born.Every Morn and every NightSome are born to Sweet Delight,Some are born to Endless Night.

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There's a point of poverty at which the spirit isn't with th

There's a point of poverty at which the spirit isn't with the body all the time. It finds the body really too unbearable. So it's almost as if you were talking to the soul itself. And a soul's not properly responsible.

LouisFerdinand Celine

Poverty

Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each

Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.

Poverty

I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments.

I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments.

Poverty

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted

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

John W. Gardner

Poverty

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of mill

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.

Poverty

The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves

The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us from the straitwaistcoated benevolent institution which idealism palms off as the totality of being.

Bertrand Russell

Imagination Poverty

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest ric

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

G. K. Chesterton

Poverty

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkabl

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

Poverty

Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

Hector Hugh Munro

Poverty

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Poverty

I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he

I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.

King Henry IV of France

Poverty

Look at me. I worked my way up from nothing to a state of ex

Look at me. I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Poverty

I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Poverty

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

Albert Einstein

Humor Funny Poverty Hunger

The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are

The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

George Bernard Shaw

Poverty Man Mistakes Sound

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence

Poverty Dependence