Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.

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.

Wealthy people have not disappeared, they are just not so willing to show off their wealth.

The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.

The biggest problem in America is most people believe poor people are poor because they are lazy.

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

Most rich people are the poorest people I know.

The rich are never as possessed by their riches as the poor are by their poverty.

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.

The rich man has his motorcar, His country and his town estate, He smokes a fifty-cent cigar And jeers at Fate. He frivols through the livelong day, He knows not Poverty, her pinch. His lot seems light, his heart seems gay; He has a cinch. Yet though my lamp burns low and dim, Though I must slave for livelihood- Think you that I would change with him? You bet I would!

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

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

Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.

That rich guy you've been seeing, must have put you down. Welcome back baby, to the poor side of town.

Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.

In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave.

Socially, I never belonged to any class, rich or poor. To the rich I was poor, and to the poor I was poor pretending to be like the rich.

He isn’t like us Low. You know that right.” I knew what Cage was saying. Marcus was out of my league. He didn’t want me thinking there could ever be anything between me and his roommate. I was low class. Marcus was a rich kid. “I’m not stupid Cage.

If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.

But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.

The poor have the same basic pleasures as the rich, and the rich will always resent it.

You speak of poverty and dependence. Who are poor and dependent? Who are rich and independent? When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.

Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.

Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States.