Poverty Quotes

Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom.

Anzia Yezierska

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

Aristotle

We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

Herbert Hoover

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

Herbert Hoover

Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.

Victor Hugo

I wasn't born in a log cabin, but my family moved into one as soon as they could afford it.

Melville D. Landon

I thought it very touching to see these two women, coarse and shabby and beaten, so united; to see what they could be to one another; to see how they felt for one another, how the heart of each to each was softened by the hard trials of their lives. I think the best side of such people is almost hidden from us. What the poor are to the poor is little known, excepting to themselves and God.

Charles Dickens

The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their distance, he has still said nothing. Or, rather, he has spoken through the voice of Victor Hugo, Zola, Richepin. At least, they said so. And these shameful impostures fed their authors. Cruel irony, the Poor Man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

Albert Camus

Poverty is a career for lot's of well paid people

Ronald Reagan

Single women have a dreadful propensity to being poor

Jane Austen

The food we were given was no more than eatable, but the patron was not mean about drink; he allowed us two litres of wine a day each, knowing that if a plongeur is not given two litres he will steal three.

George Orwell

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.

Jerome K. Jerome

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.

William James

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Napoleon Bonaparte

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.

Aristotle

It is a sin to be poor.

Charles Fillmore

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

W. E. B. Du Bois

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Lillian Hellman

This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confess'd,- Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd

Samuel Johnson

Wealth brings a heavy purse; poverty, a light spirit.

Leo Tolstoy