Quotes About Poverty

I love that man better who swears a stream as long as my arm yet deals justice to his neighbors and mercifully deals his substance to the poor, than the long, smooth faced hypocrite.

It is a sin directly against one's neighbour, since one man cannot over-abound in external riches, without another man lacking them.

If you've got a billion dollars and you're ungrateful, you're a poor man. If you have very little but you're grateful for what you have, you're truly rich.

He that is rich is wise, And all men learned poverty despise.

The great men of antiquity were poor.

Being is good, but getting rich is better.... If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as poor Caligula.

Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable.

We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as in the Colonies there is not a single unemployed man, no poor and no vagabonds.

Feel like a broke-down engine, ain't got no drivin' wheel. You all been down and lonesome, you know just how a poor man feels.

[Albert Camus] is The First Man because he is poor, which has never been much to human beings.

It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.

The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution.

Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets.

A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''

So long as He lived among men, our Saviour shared the lot of the poor. He knew by experience their cares and hardships, and He could comfort and encourage all humble workers.

If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor.... Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor!

Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.

HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.

Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.

Giving much to the poore, doth inrich a mans store. [Giving much to the poor doth increase a man's store.]

If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires aptitude.

Only poor men get hanged.

By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men.

Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man you have seen, and ask yourself if this step you contemplate is going to be any use to him.