Walt Whitman Quotes

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have been blighted in the gloom of poverty the world will never know.

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

Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule.

Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.

It is easy to say that poverty is no crime .... It is a blunder though, and is punished ... A poor man is despised the whole world over.

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

I've seen poverty up close until I was four or five.

The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need: it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you'd do anything to lift that burden. As kids, we didn't complain about being poor; we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could.

I was not somebody who watched a lot of films. We couldn't afford to. We came from struggling family background.

I never saw the light of day at Bouley. I remember I would bring home a roll of toilet paper a week because we got paid so little, if at all.

My dad was a civil servant before he retired, and my mum worked, too. We could not always get three meals in a day; sometimes we'd struggle.

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

It's important to remember that, while poverty certainly makes single life harder, it also makes married life harder - so much harder that single life might be preferable.

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

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

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

There is a somewhat-surprising, somewhat totally predictable paucity of struggle in entertainment television. I do like being a part of a show featuring a family from a struggling socioeconomic strata.

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

I grew up in a poor family. I had to cut everyone's hair, because we didn't have money for entertainment.

What hurts me most is poverty, and that's what led me to become a rebel.