Charles Dickens Quotes

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.

Want is misery.

Footage of people camped out at Best Buy or elsewhere is not remotely a celebration. Rather, it's a reminder of just how economically distressed a large percentage of our populace is.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Money was tight and Mum used to do two jobs to support us.

I've gone for long stretches without working. I remember many times peeking into my checkbook to see if any money was left.

Constantly having to think about money is not nice. People used to say, 'Being rich doesn't make you happy'. And I'd think, 'I've got no electricity, nothing - tell that to my empty fridge'.

The root of all evil isn't money; rather, it's not having enough money.

You don't even have to hate to have a perfectly miserable time.

I know people who are wealthy and they're miserable.

Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes.

If inflation continues to soar, you're going to have to work like a dog just to live like one

Families across America are feeling the pinch as they watch debts mount, bills pile up and savings disappear.

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.

When I had money, money, O! I knew no joy till I went poor; For many a false man as a friend Came knocking all day at my door.

I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family.

It was a very economically depressed time [the 80s] and because of that, there was a lot of space. Everything was relatively dilapidated, and one could live on a pretty low income. One could live well below the poverty line and not suffer immensely.

My son did not show signs of a money deficiency until he opened his small fist in the nursery and found it was empty.

When you ain’t got no money, you got the blues.

With poverty everything becomes frightful.

[The Goths'] poverty was incurable; since the most liberal donatives were soon dissipated in wasteful luxury, and the most fertile estates became barren in their hands.

Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness.

I know several women my age who are really poor...because they spent most of their energy taking care of children.

The economy is so bad that bedbugs are now infesting sleeping bags and tents, because they can't afford to stay in hotels anymore.