POVERTY n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. Its victims are distinguished by possession of all the virtues and by their faith in leaders seeking to conduct them into a prosperity where they believe these to be unknown.
If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.
A greater poverty than that caused by lack of money is the poverty of unawareness. Men and women go about the world unaware of the beauty the goodness the glories in it. Their souls are poor. It is better to have a poor pocketbook than to suffer from a poor soul.
The man who has no money is poor but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he have millions is covetous.
The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storms may enter the rain may enter but the King of England cannot enter; all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!
I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world ready booted and spurred to ride and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.
Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold And the strong lance of justice breaks; Arm it in rags a pigmy?s straw does pierce it.
Poverty it is life near the bone where it is sweetest.
As a remedy against all ills – poverty sickness and melancholy – only one thing is absolutely necessary: A liking for work.
Content makes poor men rich; Discontent makes rich men poor.
Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt As sages in all times assert; The happy man s without a shirt.
This mournful truth is everywhere confessed Slow rises worth by poverty depressed.
Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence and poverty of meanness and viciousness and both of discontent.
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
There are two things needed in these days; first for rich men to find out how poor men live; and second for poor men to know how rich men work.
Single women have a dreadful propensity to being poor.
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
POVERTY n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. Its victims are distinguished by possession of all the virtues and by their faith in leaders seeking to conduct them into a prosperity where they believe these to be unknown.
Poverty is the step-mother of genius.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of . In a country badly governed wealth is something to be ashamed of.
If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.
A greater poverty than that caused by lack of money is the poverty of unawareness. Men and women go about the world unaware of the beauty the goodness the glories in it. Their souls are poor. It is better to have a poor pocketbook than to suffer from a poor soul.
Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.
One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymens miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.
For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he is unable to have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.
Poverty must have many satisfactions else there would not be so many poor people.
It?s no disgrace t? be poor but it might as well be.
There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart live leaves in a dry season and rotting around the feet.
This mournful truth is evrywhere confessd Slow rises worth by poverty depressd.
Poverty has many roots but the tap root is ignorance.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor it cannot save the few who are rich.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Few save the poor feel for the poor.
The man who has no money is poor but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he have millions is covetous.
Stupidity is not a handicap in politics.
As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storms may enter the rain may enter but the King of England cannot enter; all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!
An honest man is one who knows that he cant consume more than he has produced.
I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world ready booted and spurred to ride and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.
When the rich make war its the poor that die.
There is no greater burden than great potential.
There is a noble manner of being poor and who does not know it will never be rich.
Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold And the strong lance of justice breaks; Arm it in rags a pigmy?s straw does pierce it.
Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.
Poverty is no disgrace to a man but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
Ive never been poor only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation.
The more is given the less the people will work for themselves and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
A sobering thought what if at this very moment I am living up to my full potential?
There were times in my life when my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and know if it was heads or tails.
It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
To live from hand to mouth.