When poverty comes in the door love flies out the window. – Proverb
Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness. – Proverb
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain – until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life. – Jane Addams
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. – Aristotle
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. – Walter Bagehot
Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. – James Baldwin
The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a days time they will have turned it into a Hell. – Jeremy Bentham
The poor will always be with you. John 12: 8 – Bible
The destruction of the poor is their poverty. – Bible
He that has pity on the poor lends to the Lord. – Bible
Whoever shuts his ears at the cry of the poor, they also shall cry themselves, but not be heard. – Bible
Who ever mocks the poor insults his maker; and he that is glad at calamities shall not go unpunished. – Bible
Poverty is the step-mother of genius. – Josh Billings
Remember the poor, it costs nothing. – Josh Billings
I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design. – Josh Billings
Every Night and every Morn Some to Misery are born. Every Morn and every Night Some are born to Sweet Delight, Some are born to Endless Night. – William Blake
The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man. – Napoleon Bonaparte
