2,719 Quotes About Poverty

Beggars, alas, could not be choosers.

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

When someone steals another's clothes, we call them a thief. Should we not give the same name to one who could clothe the naked and does not? The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry; the coat unused in your closet belongs to the one who needs it; the shoes rotting in your closet belong to the one who has no shoes; the money which you hoard up belongs to the poor.

You're broke, eh?"I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.

Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.

From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.

Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have.

The world has been given a treasure through which its inhabitants can attain greatness if they so desire.