Poverty Quotes

Jargon allows us to camouflage intellectual poverty with verbal extravagance.

David Pratt

I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Groucho Marx

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Woody Allen

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.

Benjamin Franklin

Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction.

Dennis Kucinich, 2004 speech to Democratic National Convention

None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.

Henry David Thoreau

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.

Johnson

Learn to be pleased with everything with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others with poverty, for not having much to care for, and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

Plutarch

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

Zora Neale Hurston

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

Benjamin Franklin

It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.

Horace, Odes

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.

Rainer Maria Rilke

True poverty does not come from God.

Yiddish Prove

The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.

George F. Gilde

We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction.

Dennis Kucinich