Poverty Quotes

Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour.

I care for riches, to make gifts With hunger, rich and poor are all as one.

I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

I ask you, what am I? I’m one of the undeserving poor: thats what I am. Think of what that means to a man.

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.

There have been a good many funny things said and written about hardupishness, but the reality is not funny, for all that. It is not funny to have to haggle over pennies. It isn't funny to be thought mean and stingy. It isn't funny to be shabby and to be ashamed of your address. No, there is nothing at all funny in poverty — to the poor.

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.

"Poverty" Pitt exclaimed "is no disgrace but it is damned annoying." In the contemporary United States it is not annoying but it is a disgrace.

Poverty is the stepmother of genius.