Elbert Hubbard Quotes

When I was a child, I didn't fly - we couldn't afford to fly. Flying was for rich people.

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those born rich could afford to be touched by it.

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

The rich don’t want the poor to get ahead of them.

There are only two families in the whole world, my old grandmother used to say, The Haves and the Have-Nots.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.

I did not grow up with a silver spoon in my mouth.

I was the kind of poor where I knew right away I had less than everyone around me. Our environment, our physical space reflected our income.

Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.

The rich have markets, the poor have bureaucrats.

A poore mans Cow dies a rich mans child.

Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.

The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine

We talk of the enormous virtues of work, but it turns out that that is mostly for the poor. If you're rich enough or if you're a college professor, the virtue lies in leisure and the use you make of your leisure time.

When I look out [the window] at the big houses on either side of the road, it's obvious we've entered the rich side of town. Poor people don't post signs like NO TRESPASSING, PRIVATE DRIVE, PRIVATE PROPERTY, MONITORED BY CAMERA SURVEILLANCE. I should know because I've been poor my entire life, and the only person I know who ever posted a sign like these is my friend...and he actually stole the sign off a rich guy's yard.

The poor have the same basic pleasures as the rich, and the rich will always resent it.

It's hard to get people to empathize with the poor. You can get some people to sympathize with the poor, but to empathize is actually very hard, because most people are not poor. I realized that scarcity gives you a thread.

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.

Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.