Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes

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

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

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.

It is easy to say that poverty is no crime .... It is a blunder though, and is punished ... A poor man is despised the whole world over.

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

With all the awards I've won, you'd think that I'd at least be able to make a living. It's a really terrible situation.

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

David Milch is one of the smartest human beings I've ever met. I'm relatively bright and relatively well-read. I'm not in a league with that guy.

I was one of the poorest people in America.

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

In a country like Mexico, you can't forget about poverty - about how half of the population lives in poverty, and how half of that half live in extreme poverty.

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

I may have been in financial difficulties, but I'm not a pauper.

In America, the 1 percent and the 10 percent are doing just fine, but the people who are bearing the brunt of this economy are the ones who suffer.

It's easier to get rich than it is to explain not getting rich.

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.

A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross.

Years ago we hardly had anything to eat. Now I earn more money and I see every opponent as a man that tries to put me back to that poorer period. That man has to be eliminated.

Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.

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

One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.

I think that so many people don't understand how easy it is to be broke, how easy it is to find yourself in a situation where you're in an absolutely foreign place.

The doctrine of thrift for the poor is dumb and cruel, like advising them to try and lift themselves by their bootstraps.

My own father held down two jobs, barely affording the little rented house I grew up in. My dad worked hard, lifted heavy things, and got his hands dirty. The only soap we had at my house was Lava. Heck, I was in college before I found out it wasn't supposed to hurt to take a shower.

Economy, the poor man's mint.