Poor Quotes

Those are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit. (Plutarch)
When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
I'd like to live like a poor man with lots of money. View quote
Pablo Picasso
No one has ever become poor by giving. View quote
Anne Frank
Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor. View quote
Seneca
Happiness That's nothing more than health and a poor memory. View quote
Albert Schweitzer
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody? View quote
Diana, Princess of Wales
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. View quote
James Baldwin
Poor Nations are hungry, and rich Nations are proud, and Pride and Hunger will ever be at Variance. (Jonathan Swift)
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor. View quote
Samuel Richardson
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money. View quote
W. C. Fields
The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations. View quote
David Friedman
Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation. View quote
Rumi
It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich. View quote
Anton Chekhov
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving! View quote
George Eliot
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships. View quote
W. E. B. Du Bois
Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another. View quote
Madonna (entertainer)
I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. (George S. Patton)
I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich. View quote
Gertrude Stein
Money is a poor man's credit card. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of "speculation"; but which ought to be called Gambling. View quote
William Cobbett
There is a difference between being poor and being broke. Broke is temporary, and poor is eternal. View quote
Robert Kiyosaki