Marty Feldman Quotes

Very few people can afford to be poor.

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

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.

Poverty affects people of all races.

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

I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor.

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

I was one of the poorest people in America.

I was the poorest kid in my school, poorest kid in my town, poorest family. That stayed with me forever.

If you don't have money or you come from a background that doesn't have money, it's harder to achieve your ambition in life. It's not that you can't, but it becomes harder. Inequality is one of the worst things that can exist in our society, so I am interested in those kind of things.

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.'

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

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

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

There are only two families in the whole world, my old grandmother used to say, The Haves and the Have-Nots.

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.

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

The burning issue of our time is the growing inequality in income and wealth in our country.

I'm a poor person who has money.

You are only as rich as where you come from, and Nigeria has a lot of poverty.

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

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

Poverty - the one thing money can't buy

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.