“It is a sin to be poor.”
“Who, being loved, is poor?”
“A poor man is all schemes.”
“Empty pockets make empty heads.”
“Poverty consist in feeling poor.”
“Poor men's reasons are not heard.”
“Remember the poor, it costs nothing.”
“True poverty does not come from God.”
“Poverty is the step-mother of genius.”
“Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.”
“Poverty is the worst form of violence.”
“You lose your manners when you're poor.”
“Poverty is not the root cause of crime.”
“Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.”
“O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!”
“The greatest man in history was the poorest.”
“Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.”
“He who knows how to be poor knows everything.”
“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”
“When the rich wage war it is the poor who die.”
“Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.”
“As society advances the standard of poverty rises.”
“Painless poverty is better than embittered wealth.”
“I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.”
“Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.”
“You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.”
“The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.”
“A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.”
“It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.”
“I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments.”