Poverty

My poverty is not complete: it lacks me. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Society comprises two classes: those who have more food than appetite, and those who have more appetite than food. – SÃ©bastien-Roch Nicolas (Chamfort)

The story of his youth was a series of bitternesses, as is the case with almost all distinguished men. Poverty sits by their cradle, and keeps watch over them till they have grown up; and this lean nurse remains their true companion through life. – Heinrich Heine

We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition. – William James

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers. – William James

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them. – Bill Vaughan

Every man has a right to be poor. – Richard Jefferies

Affluence creates poverty. – Marshall McLuhan

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time. – Willem de Kooning

The poor are poor because the rich are rich. – Author Unknown

To a man with an empty stomach food is God. – Gandhi

Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all. – Eva Perón

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient. – Sydney Smith, His Wit and Wisdom, 1900

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. – Mahatma Gandhi

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred. – John Gardner

However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. – Henry David Thoreau

If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living. – Yiddish Proverb

True poverty does not come from God. – Yiddish Proverb

Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is. – English Proverb

Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him. – Proverb