Quotes About Poverty

Apothecary: My poverty, but not my will, consents.Romeo: I pay thy poverty, and not thy will.

Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor.

I' the commonwealth I would by contrariesExecute all things; for no kind of trafficWould I admit; no name of magistrate;Letters should not be known; riches, poverty,And use of service, none; contract, succession,Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none;No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil;No occupation; all men idle, all;And women too, but innocent and pure.

Beggars mounted run their horse to death.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor:For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich;And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,So honor peereth in the meanest habit.

Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house, as your pearl in your foul oyster.

Our basest beggarsAre in the poorest thing superfluous:Allow not nature more than nature needs,Man's life is cheap as beast's.

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

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

He hath eaten me out of house and home.

My friends were poor, but honest.

I am as poor as Job, my lord, but not so patient.

Steep'd me in poverty to the very lips.

He that wants money, means, and content, is without three good friends.

An honest, exceeding poor man.

How apt the poor are to be proud.

William Shakespeare

Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a revery of long days and nights; destined finally to go out into that dirty gray turmoil to follow love and pride; a new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in men shaken.

Poverty plus confidence equals pioneers. We never doubted.

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

the road, rail, and port systems are so bad that poor countries cannot develop the scale of operations necessary to achieve high productivity.

The bigger story was competition causing more productive business enterprises to replace less productive ones...However, it provides even more reason to worry about all the people living in economies where protection and distortion of competition allow unproductive enterprises to persist and cause these people to fall further behind, but even more importantly, to remain in poverty.