Horace Quotes

Poverty snatches the reins out of the hand of piety.

The obstacles are great and the suffering is great and people have got to make a living.

With poverty everything becomes frightful.

It is useless to talk virtue to a starving girl.

Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.

Eventually I did that, but it took a lot of twists and turns, and there were a year or two there where I was living with no money at all - no home, no car, no nothing. I was living in somebody's garage in Los Angeles at that point - for a year.

We're living in hard times.

My mother had various jobs, from where she was regularly fired as politically undesirable. I often saw her crying and mumbling that we'll starve to death.

Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty.

The fight to make ends meet, keeps a man upon his feet.

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

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.

Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.

Do I gotta go sell me a whole lotta crack for decent shelter and clothes on my back?

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

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

My children didn't have my advantages; I was born into abject poverty.

A guy I interviewed for Hard Times says, "What do I remember about the Great Depression? That I was hungry, that's all." Elemental things.

Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.

Come away; poverty's catching.

It is a kind of blindness--poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle.

Poverty is a lot like childbirth - you know it is going to hurt before it happens, but you'll never know how much until you experience it.

Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

I know exactly what it's like to not have a penny. I know exactly what it's like trying to get a job. I know exactly what it's like having bloody one tin of Ambrosia left in the cupboard. But I know I can survive.