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Another good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have declared you legally insane in order to gain control of your estate. - Woody Allen Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts. [Lat., Paupertas omnium artium repertrix.] - Apuleius (Appuleius), De Magia (p. 285, 35) Single women have a dreadful propensity to being poor. - Jane Austen (signed first book "By a Lady") 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 Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms For bread, but have some space to think and feel Like moral and immortal creatures. - Philip James Bailey, Festus (sc. A Country Town) 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 Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life. - Honore de Balzac Come away; poverty's catching. - Mrs. Aphra (Afra or Aphara or Ayfara) Johnson Behn What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord God of hosts. - Bible, Isaiah (ch. III, v. 15) For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always. - Bible, John (ch. XII, v. 8) The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty. - Bible, Proverbs (ch. 10, v. 15) So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man. - Bible, Proverbs (ch. VI, v. 11) He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay him again. - Bible, Proverbs (ch. XIX, v. 17) Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble. - Bible, Psalms (ch. XLI, v. 1) Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: but with poverty everything becomes frightful. [Fr., L'or meme a la laideur donne un teint de beaute: Mais tout devient affreux avec la pauvrete.] - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, Satires (VIII, 209) In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less. - Christian Nestell Bovee 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 Poverty makes you sad as well as wise. - Bertolt Brecht Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse. - Bertolt Brecht Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away. - Robert Browning, By the Fireside (st. 39) Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order; Bleak blows the blast--your hat has got a hole in it. So have your breeches. - George Canning, The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder Thank God for poverty That makes and keeps us free, And lets us go our unobtrusive way, Glad of the sun and rain, Upright, serene, humane, Contented with the fortune of a day. - William Bliss Carman, The Word at Saint Kavin's Patiently bear the burden of poverty. [Lat., Paupertatis onus patienter ferre memento.] - Dionysius Cato, Disticha (lib. I, 21) That some of the indigent among us die of scanty food is undoubtedly true; but vastly more in this community die from eating too much than from eating too little. - William Ellery Channing The beggarly last doit. - William Cowper, Task (bk. V, The Winter Morning Walk, l. 126) Displaying page 1 of 5 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5
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