| Author |
Quotes |
| Anatole France | I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life. |
| Apuleius | Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts. |
| Benjamin Franklin | Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright. |
| Bible | What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord God of hosts. |
| Bible | For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always. |
| Bible | The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty. |
| Bible | So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man. |
| Bible | He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay him again. |
| Bible | Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble. |
| Dionysius Cato | Patiently bear the burden of poverty. |
| Eugene O'Neill | 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. |
| George Canning | Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order; Bleak blows the blast--your hat has got a hole in it. So have your breeches. |
| Henry George | Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough. |
| Josh Billings | Poverty is the step-mother of genius. |
| Jules Michelet | He who knows how to be poor knows everything. |
| Melville D Landon | I wasn't born in a log cabin, but my family moved into one as soon as they could afford it. |
| Nicolas Boileau Despreaux | Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: but with poverty everything becomes frightful. |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr | Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor! |
| Patrick Duncan | When you're really poor, everything you see is something you can't have. |
| Theodore Parker | As society advances the standard of poverty rises. |
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