Quotes
Quotes about Poverty
Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.
I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed wealth is something to be ashamed of.
Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.
Poverty is the step-mother of genius.
She bears a duke's revenues on her back, And in her heart she scorns our poverty.
Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, supped with Infamy.
What information consumes is rather obvious: It consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.
An advantage of poverty, your relatives gain nothing by your death.
Give me, indulgent gods! with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene; No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate, or servile grandeur, there.
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
If Poverty is the Mother of Crimes, want of Sense is the Father.
The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty. [Lat., Pessimus quidem pudor vel est parsimoniae vel frugalitatis.]
It's sin and not poverty that makes men miserable.
Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
There's a health to poverty; it sticks by us when all friends forsake us.
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. We must find each other.
Peace begets prosperity; Prosperity begets pride; Pride begets prejudice; Prejudice begets war; War begets poverty.
This mournful truth is everywhere confess'd, Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd.
