Josh Billings Quotes

I wasn't rich.

My grandma forbid us from describing ourselves as poor. She said, 'we're broke.' Because broke is temporary.

With money you are a dragon; with no money, a worm.

Wealth is far away. Poverty is near.

We all have people who are literally one life shock away from going into a crisis. For many of us, we have a buffer in one way or another. We have a savings account, or we have credit that we can go to. The underserved don't have that luxury.

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

My parents weren't rich at all.

I am not a wealthy woman. I wish to hell I was, but I never had a wealthy man.

Poverty is no disgrace. But it is certainly not a recommendation.

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.

Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.

People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.

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.

I am definitely not rich.

My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could.

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

Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.

I became married at a young age and had two daughters and divorced at 26. I had to go on welfare to make ends meet. I had no way to support myself.

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

I've never had money before in my life. Ever. Never, ever.

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.

Nobody wants to make me a rich man. In fact, most people want to make me a very poor man. I can guarantee some people fantasize at night about how poor they can make me.

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

Money can't buy poverty.

Yes, I've never inherited a penny!