Poverty Quotes - Page 12

• Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!

  Charlotte Bronte

  Heartbreak, Saying Goodbye, Thinking

  Charlotte Brontë “Jane Eyre”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist.

  George C. Marshall

  Country, Hunger Poverty, Political

  The Marshall Plan, delivered 5 June 1947 at Harvard University

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• Poverty often hides her charms under an ugly mask; yet thousands have been forced into greatness by their very struggle to keep the wolf from the door.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Struggle, Greatness, Doors

  Orison Swett Marden (2006). “Rising in the World, Or Architects of Fate”, p.428, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Boredom is the keynote of poverty - of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with - for where there is no money there is no change of any kind.

  Moss Hart

  Boredom, Kind, Poor

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• We need to make a game out of earning money. There is so much good we can do with money. Without it, we are bound and shackled and our choices become limited.

  Bob Proctor

  Money, Games, Choices

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Apr 25, 2017

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• To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.

  J. P. Donleavy

  Looks, Marry Me

  J. P. Donleavy (2010). “The Ginger Man”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty.

  Juvenal

  Lying, Depth, Virtue

  Juvenal, Horace, Persius (1822). “The satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis”, p.152

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• They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home.
  [Lat., Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat
  Res angusta domi.]

  Juvenal

  Home, Ability, Repressed

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• Cheerless poverty has no harder trial than this, that it makes men the subject of ridicule.
  [Lat., Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se
  Quam quod ridiculos homines facit.]

  Juvenal

  Men, Trials, Ridicule

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• But poverty, with most who whimper forth
  Their long complaints, is self-inflicted woe;
  The effect of laziness, or sottish write.

  William Cowper

  Writing, Self, Long

  William Cowper (1856). “The task, Table talk, and other poems: With critical observations of various authors on his genius and character, and notes, critical and illustrative”, p.233

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• Where penury is felt the thought is chain'd,
  And sweet colloquial pleasures are but few.

  William Cowper

  Sweet, Pleasure, Chains

  William Cowper, James Sambrook (2016). “William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems”, p.185, Routledge

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• Ay! idleness! the rich folks never fail
  To find some reason why the poor deserve
  Their miseries.

  Robert Southey

  Reason Why, Misery, Failing

  Robert Southey (1854). “Ballads, metrical tales and other poems”, p.141

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• To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Poor, Method, Certain

  Oliver Goldsmith (1841). “Essays”, p.30

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• Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil.

  Euripides

  Men, Evil, Disease

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• Few things in this world more trouble people than poverty, or the fear of poverty; and, indeed, it is a sore affliction; but, like all other ills that flesh is heir to, it has its antidote, its reliable remedy. The judicious application of industry, prudence and temperance is a certain cure.

  Hosea Ballou

  People, World, Affliction

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• Poverty is, except where there is an actual want of food and raiment, a thing much more imaginary than real. The shame of poverty--the shame of being thought poor--it is a great and fatal weakness, though arising in this country, from the fashion of the times themselves.

  William Cobbett

  Country, Fashion, Real

  William Cobbett (2016). “Advice to Young Men - And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject.”, p.39, Read Books Ltd

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• O blissful poverty!
  Nature, too partial! to thy lot assigns
  Health, freedom, innocence, and downy peace,
  Her real goods; and only mocks the great,
  With empty pageantries!

  Elijah Fenton

  Real, Pageantry, Innocence

  Edmund Smith, Mr. John Dryden, Mr. Elijah Fenton, Richard Steele (1750). “A Select Collection of the Best Modern English Plays: Vol. VI.”, p.61

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• Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wisdom, Men, Bags

  Benjamin Franklin (1839). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.11

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• Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

  Walter Bagehot

  People, Anomalies, Bells

  Walter Bagehot (1944). “Literary Studies”

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• Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away.

  Robert Browning

  World, Littles

  'By the Fireside' (1855) st. 39

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• The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Honest, Never Forget, Sometimes

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• It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics. Why? Because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth. We know that investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase growth. They increase good jobs, and they create new wealth for all of us.

  William J. Clinton

  Jobs, Ignorance, Opportunity

  "Transcript of Bill Clinton's Speech to the Democratic National Convention". www.nytimes.com. September 5, 2012.

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• I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Years, America, Glory

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• Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.

  Don Herold

  People, Satisfaction, Poor

  Don Herold (1924). “So human”

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• It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.

  Washington Irving

  Struggle, Men, Mind

  Washington Irving (2006). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book”, p.33, Penguin

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