“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.”
“Painless poverty is better than embittered wealth.”
“I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I am my brother's keeper, and he's sleeping pretty rough these days.”
“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.”