Quotes
Quotes about Poverty
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
When poverty comes in at doors, love leaps out at windows.
Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache. -Mae West.
Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.
Fell luxury! more perilous to youth Than storms or quicksands, poverty of chains.
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious cycle of poverty, despair, and hopelessness.
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
It's a wery remarkable circumstance, sir," said Sam, "that poverty and oysters always seem to go together."
In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight.
For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse. The black family- which survived slavery, discrimination, poverty, wars and depressions- began to come apart as the federal government moved in with its well-financed programs to "help.".
Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts. [Lat., Paupertas omnium artium repertrix.]
The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: but with poverty everything becomes frightful. [Fr., L'or meme a la laideur donne un teint de beaute: Mais tout devient affreux avec la pauvrete.]
Thank God for poverty That makes and keeps us free, And lets us go our unobtrusive way, Glad of the sun and rain, Upright, serene, humane, Contented with the fortune of a day.
Patiently bear the burden of poverty. [Lat., Paupertatis onus patienter ferre memento.]
Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
Poverty is no sinne. [Poverty is no sin.]
Poverty is the mother of health.
The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty--the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases.
Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.
As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.
