You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money. ~ P. J. O’Rourke
With virtue you can’t be entirely poor; without virtue you can’t really be rich. ~ Chinese Proverbs
With poverty everything becomes frightful. ~ Nicolas Boileau
When poverty comes in the door love flies out the window. ~ Author Unknown
Virtue often trips and falls over the sharp edge of poverty. ~ Eugene Sue
There’s no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty. ~ George Farquhar
The rich eat when they want, the poor when they can. ~ Georgian Proverbs
The poorer you are, the more devils you meet. ~ Chinese Proverbs
The poor eat meat when they bite their tongues. ~ Brazilian Proverbs
The poor can only guess at what wealth is; the rich don’t know what poverty means. ~ Chinese Proverbs
The poor always smell. ~ Arabian Proverbs
Small leisure have the poor for grief. ~ John Greenleaf Whittier
Rich men accumulate money; the poor accumulate years. ~ Chinese Proverbs
Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer. ~ Margaret Drabble
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
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise. ~ Bertolt Brecht
Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up. ~ Hector Hugh Munro
Poverty keeps the vision pure. ~ Robert Leighton
Poverty is very good in poems … in maxims and in sermons, but it is very bad in practical life. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
Poverty is to happiness what appetite is to food–poverty enables us to enjoy the simplest pleasures; appetite, the simplest fare. ~ Charles Edward Jerningham
Poverty is the worst form of violence. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Poverty is the step-mother of genius. ~ Josh Billings
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. ~ Aristotle
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. ~ Aristotle
Poverty is a noose that strangles humility and breeds disrespect for God and man. ~ Native American Proverb
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. ~ J. K. Rowling
Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation. ~ George Bernard Shaw
Poverty consists in feeling poor. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never promise a poor person, and never owe a rich one. ~ Brazilian Proverbs
It’s as difficult to be rich without bragging as it is to be poor without complaining. ~ Chinese Proverbs
If it were ever to rain soup, the poor would only have forks. ~ Brazilian Proverbs
If a bird knew how poor he was it wouldn’t sing so beautifully. ~ Danish Proverbs
I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty. ~ Groucho Marx
Hope is a great breakfast but a poor dinner. ~ Czech Proverbs
Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty. ~ Juvenal
He who lends to the poor get his interest from God. ~ German Proverbs
God is the comfort of the poor. ~ Georgian Proverbs
Give me, Lord, neither poverty nor riches. ~ William Cobbett
Do not judge by appearances; a rich heart may be under a poor coat. ~ Gaelic Proverbs
Come away; poverty’s catching. ~ Aphra Behn
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
Being well dressed does not prevent one from being poor. ~ Congolese Proverbs
Beautiful grapes often make poor wine. ~ French Proverbs
As society advances the standard of poverty rises. ~ Theodore Parker
Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor. ~ Beninese Proverbs
A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands. ~ English Proverbs
A hungry man is not a free man. ~ Adlai Stevenson
A dog shows affection even to a poor family. ~ Chinese Proverbs
