Poverty Quotes

The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach, the rich man to get a stomach to his meat.

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor, which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

Laziness travels so slowly, that Poverty soon overtakes him.

There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude that gives everything back its value.[Il y a une solitude dans la pauvreté, mais une solitude qui rend son prix à chaque chose.]

The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.

The poorest and most backward societies are always those that put women down.

The poor have little, beggars none, the rich too much, enough not one.

Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, and supped with Infamy.

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

Poverty often deprives a Man of all Spirit and Virtue: ‘Tis hard for an empty Bag to stand upright.

Poverty is the penalty of failure, – poverty, from whose loins spring the criminal and the tramp, both failures, both discouraged workers. Poverty is the inferno where ignorance festers and vice corrodes, and where the physical, mental, and moral parts of nature are aborted and denied.

Poverty is the fundamental cause of most of the physical, moral and economic ills of humanity.