Monetary Difficulties Quotes

When I was a kid, our family was not that rich.

Poe was plagued and haunted most of all by something pretty banal: poverty. Probably the most eccentric decision in life was to become a writer in an age when making a living at it was nearly impossible.

There was some conflict there over Saturday nights because we were all really broke in those days- all the money you had in the world was in your pockets. Nowadays when you're say you're broke, it's not the same thing.

January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.

We came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt.

I had to pawn my clothes just to pay my rent.

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.

I needed to pay for my horses in Warwickshire, and I couldn't do that off a waitress' wage.

There were times when we couldn't even go to the movies, when I was a kid, because there wasn't enough money.