Quotes About Poverty

Short of genius, a rich man cannot imagine poverty.

Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

The poor will always be with you.

This is one of the bitter curses of poverty: it leaves no right to be generous.

Poverty is less a matter of income than of prospects. While the incomes of the poor have steadily risen through Great Society largesse, their prospects have plummeted as families have broken into dependent fragments.

Over the hill to the poor-house I'm trudgin' my weary way.

The greatest man in history was the poorest.

George Edward Herbert

O God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap!

The poor always ye have with you.

Blessed is he that considereth the poor.

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.

The pleasures of the rich are bought with the tears of the poor.

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.

The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow.

Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks.

Summer is the mother of the poor.

I believe that Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.

Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-edged rock of poverty.

I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind-hearted, fat, benevolent people do.

If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.