“Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.”
“Not he who has little, but he who wishes more, is poor.”
“The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.”
“Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.”
“The best way to help poor people is to not be one of them.”
“Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.”
“Virtue often trips and falls over the sharp edge of poverty.”
“Poverty, of course, is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.”
“Show me a man with very little money and I will show you a bum.”
“No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.”
“There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.”
“I am my brother's keeper, and he's sleeping pretty rough these days.”
“Oh, God! that bread should be so dear! And flesh and blood so cheap!”
“Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.”
“Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a state of mind.”
“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”
“Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.”
“For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.”
“The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor.”
“The poorest He that is in England hath a life to live as the greatest He.”
“Look at me. I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.”
“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”
“In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.”
“A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.”
“The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.”
“Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.”
“I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.”
“This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.”
“There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.”
“In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.”