Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old poverty quotes, poverty sayings, and poverty proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.Frank McCourt
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We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.Immanuel Kant
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Poverty is the worst form of violence.Mahatma Gandhi
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An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.Albert Einstein
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Poverty won’t allow him to lift up his head dignity won’t allow him to bow it down.Madagasy Proverb
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It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Poverty wants much but avarice, everything.Publilius Syrus
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.George Eliot
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In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.Confucius
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Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.Benjamin Franklin
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Poor is the man who is not content with what he has.Rita Gonzalez
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Beggars can't be choosers. John Heywood
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Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood. 14th Century French Proverb
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Hunger is the best sauce. French Proverb
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Let your head be more than a funnel to your stomach. German (on food and hunger)
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No clock is more regular than the belly. French (on food and hunger)
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Plenty sits still, hunger is a wanderer. Zulu (South African)
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Poverty breeds discontent. unknown
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What good is honor when you are starving. Yiddish (on food and hunger)
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An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.Plutarch
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Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.Oliver Goldsmith
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Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.Aristotle
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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.Robert F. Kennedy
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There’s no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.George Farquhar
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Money has been the most serious handicap that we have ever met. There are times when poverty is fortunate.Clarence Darrow
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Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.Jane Austen
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We fought a war on poverty, and poverty won.Ronald Reagan
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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.Samuel Johnson
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You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money.P.J. O’Rourke
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Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.Sydney Smith