Martin Farquhar Tupper Quotes

Never forget that there are rich people in poor countries and poor people in rich countries.

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.

It is clear that the economy has not gotten better for everyone.

I don't want there to be this separation between the rich and poor. I may be part of the three percent because I've been fortunate and done well for myself, but I will never forget about the 97 percent. That was me growing up. I was so poor I dreamt about being just 'regular poor,' not 'poor, poor.'

A poor man is a man who has not got much money. This may seem a simple and unnecessary description, but in the face of a great mass of modern fact and fiction, it seems very necessary indeed; most of our realists and sociologists talk about a poor man as if he were an octopus or an alligator.

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

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 was one of the poorest people in America.

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction

In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.

I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

The country is filled with energetic and enterprising men, rendered desperate by being reduced from affluence to poverty through the vicissitudes of the times. They will give an impulse to smuggling unknown to the country heretofore.

There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population.

My parents worked their tails off, but we weren't the poorest people in town. Some people I went to school with, you could tell they were dirt poor.

Millions of people are falling out of the middle class into the ranks of the poor.

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

Poverty is the parent of revolution.

I'm tired of people on trust funds telling people on food stamps how to live.

I think the problem is that we Nigerians have yet to accept that we are now poorer than we used to be.

Put all other sufferings on one side of the scale, and poverty on the other, and poverty would be heavier.