Quotes About Poverty

The house of a childless person is a void, all directions are void to one who has no relatives, the heart of a fool is also void, but to a poverty stricken man all is void.

Necessitous men are not free men.

It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.

In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

One who is by nature daring and is suffering from poverty will not long be law-abiding. Indeed, any men, save those that are truly good, if their sufferings are very great, will be likely to rebel.

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode.

I would rather be a serf in a poor man's house and be above ground than reign among the dead.

A man is rich whose income is larger than his expenses, and he is poor if his expenses are greater than his income.

The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.

You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.

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

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man.

Killed by a man with a switch blade knife, for 43 dollars my friend lost his life.

Parsimony is enough to make the master of the golden mines as poor as he that has nothing; for a man may be brought to a morsel of bread by parsimony as well as profusion.

You are giving a little man a biscuit to eat, and you put a barrel of flour more taxes on top of his head to carry.

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.

The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty.

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.

African famine is not a visitation of fate. It is largely man-made, and the men who made it are largely Africans.

Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be Souldiers.

Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.

There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies.

The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.