Alexander Pope Quotes

Very few people can afford to be poor.

I wasn't rich.

You don't have to be impoverished to understand poverty.

In my youth, poverty enriched me, but now I can afford wealth.

There is a difference between being poor and being broke. Broke is temporary, and poor is eternal.

I would say that many of the characters in my stories do not live in true poverty - they are not out on the street; they are not wondering if there will be anything to eat in the next week. They are people who are at the lower echelons of the economic strata.

There's no future in being poor.

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.

Money can't buy poverty.

The goatherds were the poorest people of Spain. Probably, they were the richest.

I myself am from a very poor background; I experienced firsthand poverty in this country, and that is not unrelated to my desire, from the moment I became president, to make a priority of poverty reduction in this country.

Coming from where I came from, it was unimaginable to ever be wealthy. That was just too far out of my reach.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

This is why I have always said that it would be better if Muslims were poor.

There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.

As income inequality increases, social mobility falls.

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.

I have way more experience being poor than I do having money.

Poverty is not a lack of character. Poverty is a lack of cash.

I identify with the bottom of the pyramid, because, outside of having money, I am at the bottom of the pyramid.

I was poor once, I didn't like it, I don't want to be poor again.

A man with money to pay for a meal can talk about hunger without demeaning himself. ... But for a man with no money hunger is a disgrace.

We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime