Mark Twain Quotes

Very few people can afford to be poor.

I was one of the poorest people in America.

Money can't buy poverty.

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

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.

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

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

It is rather a shame for a rich country like ours ... that it should allow those who have toiled all their days to end in penury and possible starvation.

Millions of middle-class Americans, in free fall during the economic collapse that began around 2008, have had a taste of what it means to be poor.

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.

In Canada, we just have rich and poor, but we don't constantly remind poor people about it.

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.

Footage of people camped out at Best Buy or elsewhere is not remotely a celebration. Rather, it's a reminder of just how economically distressed a large percentage of our populace is.

You and I can be busy, and we take a vacation from work. You can't take a break from being poor. You can't say, 'Hey I've had enough of worrying about money, I'm just going to be rich for a couple of weeks until I've recovered.'

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.

Does anyone really believe it is possible to make even the most basic ends meet on $5.15 an hour?

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

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

It's really hard to be poor in New York - I was really poor when I lived in New York.

Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

Like a lot of black people, I grew up straight po'. Wasn't no question about whether we was po', either. If you really wanted to know, all you had to do was look in our refrigerator.

And the 90% they are not is what I do for a living.