Quotes of Poverty - somelinesforyou

“ Poverty is the schoolmaster of character. ”

- Antiphanes

“ Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. ”

- Aristotle

“ Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. ”

- Frederick Douglass

“ You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland. ”

- Horace

“ Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticized only by fools. ”

- J. K. Rowling

“ It is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. ”

- J. K. Rowling

“ Anyone who had ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. ”

- James Baldwin

“ It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty. ”

- Juvenal

“ It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. ”

- Kin Hubbard

“ That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about. ”

- L. M. Montgomery

“ Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent. ”

- Plato

“ To be poor and dependent is very nearly an impossibility. ”

- William Cobbett

“ Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable. ”

- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

“ The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as "Soho" poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent. ”

- Quentin Crisp

“ Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. ”

- Aristotle

“ Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. ”

- Walter Bagehot

“ Poverty is the worst form of violence. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. ”

- Harold Ross

“ We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are. ”

- Richard Henry Stoddard

“ For the poor always ye have with you. ”

- Bible

“ Anticipate charity by preventing poverty. ”

- Rabbi Moses ben Maimon

“ Loneliness is the most terrible poverty. ”

- Harold Ross

“ Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient. ”

- Sydney Smith

“ Poverty, of course, is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying. ”

- William Pitt Chatham

“ The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ It's not a lack of preparation. ”

- Brian Greene

“ There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty. ”

- Joe E. Lewis

“ Virtue often trips and falls over the sharp edge of poverty. ”

- Eugene Sue

“ Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides. ”

- James Reston
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