Joseph Addison Quotes

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

Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room.

Poverty snatches the reins out of the hand of piety.

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

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

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.

Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.

Come away; poverty's catching.

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

Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.

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

My mom was born poor, raised poor, and was going to die poor.

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

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

nothing more afflicts the mind of man than Poverty

My father made about $25 a week. We always lived just on the edge.

Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.

Poverty is no vice, but an inconvenience.

With poverty everything becomes frightful.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.

The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.

Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.

That's the story of my life rich or poor and mostly poor and truly poor.

Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity.