Will Rogers Quotes

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.'

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.

If my countrymen should ever wish for the honour of having among them a gentry enormously wealthy, let them sell their Farms & pay rack's rents; the Scale of the Landlords will rise as the tenants is depress'd, who will soon become poor, tattered, dirty and abject in Spirit.

The state grew fat, but the people grew lean.

You can't wish away poverty overnight.

The abjectly poor, and all those person whose energies are entirely absorbed by the struggle for daily sustenance, are conservative because they cannot afford the effort of taking thought for the day after tomorrow; just as the highly prosperous are conservative because they have small occasion to be discontented with the situation as it stands today.

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

Being poor is only romantic in books.

Economic privation proceeds by easy stages, and so long as men suffer it patiently the outside world cares little.

In the operative opinion of the world, he who is already fully provided with what is necessary for him, that man shall have more;while he who is deplorably destitute of the same, he shall have taken away from him even that which he hath. Yet the world vows it is a very plain, downright matter-of-fact, plodding, humane sort of world.

Those who know the normal life of the poor... will realize well enough that without economic security, liberty is not worth having.

Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized nations, proceeds often from that change of manners which opulence has produced. Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries; but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.

Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those born rich could afford to be touched by it.

The ones that actually affect people who don't have enough money to change them - which is almost everybody. But that has nothing to do with the president.

There is a difference between being poor and being broke. Broke is temporary, and poor is eternal.

Oh, poverty parts good company.

Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history of the world have so many of those same people felt themselves so poor.

We live in a world where economic positions - income and wealth - are very unevenly distributed, and this leads to the widespread persistence of poverty.

The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it.

Poor people have been voting for Democrats for the last 50 years and they're still poor.

Broke is temporary, poor is eternal.

The rate of profit... is naturally low in rich and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin.