Plutarch Quotes

It is bad to be poor. I shall go to the wall for bread and meat, if I neglect my business this year as well as last.

Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.

We were poor. we were so poor, in my neighborhood the rainbow was in black-and-white.

Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.

I lived below the official American poverty line until I was 31.

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.

Show me a man with very little money and I will show you a bum.

People who didn't know the depression just don't know what being poor means.

nothing more afflicts the mind of man than Poverty

I was very poor when I was young.

I almost went broke. I didn't file bankruptcy, but I had some miserable times there for two or three years.

I was poor my whole life.

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

I offer you what I have my Poverty

Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.

Poverty snatches the reins out of the hand of piety.

Poverty palls the most generous spirits; it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair.

Being poor is only romantic in books.

Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.

A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.

No money, holes in my socks, living off oatmeal.

My people are poor and I am one of them.

Economy, the poor man's mint.

Poverty has strange bedfellows.

Being poor doesn't mean being ordinary.