“ Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly. ”
- Jean Cocteau- Copy
- 1.4K
“ I believe, and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer. ”
- William Henry Harrison- Copy
- 500
“ There are more serious problems in life than financial ones, and I've had a lot of those. I've been broke before, and will be again. Heartbroke? That's serious. Lose a few bucks? That's not. ”
- Willie Nelson- Copy
- 54
“ The poorest He that is in England hath a life to live as the greatest He. ”
- Thomas Raineborough- Copy
- 1.8K
“ The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. ”
- Anatole France- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich. ”
- Eva Peron- Copy
- 605
“ Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune. ”
- Thomas Gray- Copy
- 494
“ I have found out in later years that my family was very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it. ”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death. ”
- Rosalind Russell- Copy
- 3.9K
“ The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world. ”
- Johann Friedrich von Schiller- Copy
- 3.4K
“ The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor. ”
- George Moore- Copy
- 1.2K
“ 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- Copy
- 3.8K
“ I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design. ”
- Josh Billings- Copy
- 3.1K
“ When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry, they called me a communist. ”
- Dom H. Camara- Copy
- 494
“ To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships. ”
- William Edward Burghardt Du Bois- Copy
- 1.7K
“ The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied but written off as trash… ”
- John Berger- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Poverty, of course, is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying. ”
- William Pitt Chatham- Copy
- 1.8K
“ I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out. ”
- Rodney Dangerfield- Copy
- 2.7K
“ No price is set on lavish summer;June may be had by the poorest comer. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
- 371
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