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He who ashamed of his poverty would be equally proud of his wealth.
Source Unknown
It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.
Samuel Johnson
This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.
Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they support themselves by temporary means, and everyday is lost in contriving for tomorrow.
A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.
Juvenal
Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.
I believe the war on poverty is a more American idea than the war on the war on poverty. I believe that most people feel like that. And I believe that it ain't over till it's over.
Bruce Springsteen
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.
Michel de Montaigne
A poor man is all schemes.
Proverb
The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.
George Bernard Shaw
Whoever shuts his ears at the cry of the poor, they also shall cry themselves, but not be heard.
Bible
The destruction of the poor is their poverty.
The poor will always be with you. John 12: 8
He that has pity on the poor lends to the Lord.
As for the spirit of poverty, I do not remember any moment when it was not in me, although only to that unhappily small extent compatible with my imperfection. I fell in love with Saint Francis of Assisi as soon as I came to know about him. I always believed and hoped that one day Fate would force upon me the condition of a vagabond and a beggar which he embraced freely. Actually I felt the same way about prison.
Simone Weil, letter written in M
To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought, with a great part of the women, to be compelled to lead a life of celibacy, for fear of having children to be starved; to suppose such a thing possible is monstrous.
William Cobbett
So I say a name, even if self-bestowed, is better than a number. In the register of the potter's field I shall soon have both. What wealth!
Ambrose Bierce
Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of man.
Leo Tolstoy
How often do the poor daydream of a better life? Plenty, no doubt, and where does it get them? It is the poor who begin with a daydream and realize at some point that they have to get up, roll their sleeves, and start doing something about those day dreams who succeed. And there are many who have.
Stephen Richards
Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.
James Reston
