Poverty Quotes

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
Plato, The Republic
Plutarch - learn to be pleased with everything with wealth,...
Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
Kahlil Gibran
Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
Horace, Odes
People come to poverty in two ways accumulating debts and paying them off.
Jewish Prove
This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.
Lyndon B. Johnson
What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.
George Bernard Shaw
Mother theresa - we think sometimes that poverty is only being...
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
Jargon allows us to camouflage intellectual poverty with verbal extravagance.
David Pratt
True poverty does not come from God.
Yiddish Prove
Painless poverty is better than embittered wealth.
Greek
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
The best coffee in Europe is Vienna coffee, compared to which all other coffee is fluid poverty.
Mark Twain, Greatly Exaggerated
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction.
Dennis Kucinich, 2004 speech to Democratic National Convention
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.
Kin Hubbard
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
G. K. Chesterton