Poverty Quotes - Page 5

• Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.

  Doris Day

  Thanksgiving, Thankful, Gratitude

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For the first time in our history it is possible to conquer poverty.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Firsts, Conquer, First Time

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.377, Best Books on

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• You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.

  Jean Kerr

  Thinking, Atheism, Unhappy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Small leisure have the poor for grief.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Grief, Leisure, Poor

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1875). “Mabel Martin: A Harvest Idyl”, p.44

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• We didn't starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.

  Bernard Malamud

  Sick, Poor, Chickens

  "A Malamud reader".

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• Empty pockets make empty heads.

  William Carlos Williams

  Pockets, Empty, Empty Pockets

  William Carlos Williams, A. Walton Litz, Christopher MacGowan (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962”, p.88, New Directions Publishing

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• The beggarly last doit.

  William Cowper

  Lasts

  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.265

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• If we from wealth to poverty descend,
  Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend.

  John Dryden

  Giving, Want, Wealth

  John Dryden (1822). “Fables, from Boccaccio and Chaucer”, p.259

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• An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.

  Thucydides

  Men, Effort, Escapism

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• The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Rich, Knows, Hard

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• The extent of poverty in the world is much exaggerated. Our sensitiveness makes half our poverty; our fears--anxieties for ills that never happen--a greater part of the other half.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Anxiety, Other Half, World

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.139

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• In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

  Oscar Wilde

  Civilization, America

  Oscar Wilde, Lady Wilde (1909). “Epigrams: Oscariana; Sebastian Melmoth; Phrases and philosophies; Oscar Wilde's literary art; Correspondence; Impressions of America, with an introduction by Stuart Mason; Oscar Wilde in America”

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• The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility

  Eric Hoffer

  Struggle, Shelter, Desperate

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen to the falling rain, and crouch for warmth beneath the lee of some old barn or rick, or in the hollow of a tree; are dismal things - but not so dismal as the wandering up and down where shelter is, and beds and sleepers are by thousands; a houseless rejected creature.

  Charles Dickens

  Country, War, Rain

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Barnaby Rudge: And, Hard Times”, p.90

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• Ants do no bend their ways to empty barns, so no friend will visit the place of departed wealth.
  [Lat., Horrea formicae tendunt ad inania nunquam
  Nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes.]

  Ovid

  Departed, No Friends, Way

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• We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Hunger And Poverty, World, Crime

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.99

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• Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.

  Henry George

  Society, Hell, Enough

  Louis Freeland Post, Henry George (1899). “The Single Tax: An Explanation, with Colored Charts and Illustrated Notes of the Land, Labor, and Fiscal Reform Advocated by Henry George”

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• Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Home, Together, Break

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.387, Delphi Classics

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• Want is a bitter and a hateful good,
  Because its virtues are not understood;
  Yet many things, impossible to thought,
  Have been by need to full perfection brought.
  The daring of the soul proceeds from thence,
  Sharpness of wit, and active diligence;
  Prudence at once, and fortitude it gives;
  And, if in patience taken, mends our lives.

  John Dryden

  Taken, Giving, Perfection

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.504, Delphi Classics

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• We must act together, as a united people... For the birth of a new world. Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

  Patricia Young

  Justice For All, People, Water

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• Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.

  Charles Lamb

  Rags, Dresses, Suits

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.127

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• I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough. Let's go west.'

  Richard Jeni

  Funny, New York, Thinking

  "A few words from Richard Jeni". www.cnn.com. March 12, 2007.

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• Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict.

  Kofi Annan

  Family, Community, Political

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• The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Truth, Honesty, Inspiration

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• There is no such thing as an acceptable level of unemployment, because hunger is not acceptable, poverty is not acceptable, poor health is not acceptable, and a ruined life is not acceptable.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Unemployment, Levels

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