Quotes of Scarcity - somelinesforyou

“ Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. ”

- Aristotle

“ We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are. ”

- Richard Henry Stoddard

“ For the poor always ye have with you. ”

- Bible

“ It's not a lack of preparation. ”

- Brian Greene

“ To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity. ”

- Thomas A. Edison

“ Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence. ”

- Michael O’Brien

“ The simple lack of her is more to me than others presence. ”

- Edward Thomas

“ My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants. ”

- J. Brotherton

“ Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all — liberty! ”

- James Monroe

“ Not he who has little, but he who wishes more, is poor. ”

- Marcus Annaeus Seneca

“ Poverty is the mother of crime. ”

- Marcus Aurelius

“ Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient. ”

- Sydney Smith

“ The poor will always be with you. ”

- Bible

“ This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time. ”

- Aneurin Bevan

“ Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself. ”

- Stuart Wilde

“ The only lack or limitation is in your own mind. ”

- N. H. Moos

“ Though they carry nothing forth with them, yet in all their journey they lack nothing. For wheresoever they come, they be at home. ”

- Sir Thomas More

“ Loneliness is the most terrible poverty. ”

- Harold Ross

“ Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things. ”

- Abraham Cowley

“ To walk is to lack a place. ”

- Michel De Certeau

“ We may lack riches, but the greatest fortune is what lies in our hearts. ”

- Dean Koontz

“ I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me. ”

- Hunter S. Thompson

“ The lack of money is the root of all evils. ”

- Mark Twain

“ There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty. ”

- Joe E. Lewis

“ Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable. ”

- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

“ Remember the poor, it costs nothing. ”

- Josh Billings

“ You lose your manners when you're poor. ”

- Lillian Hellman

“ They that die by famine die by inches. ”

- Matthew

“ Caused by a dearth of scandal should the vapors Distress our fair ones — let them read the prayers. ”

- David Garrick

“ There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers. ”

- Gerald Massey
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