Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness:
But with poverty everything becomes frightful.
Poverty Quotes
Juvenal has the most entries, with Solomon, Shakespeare, Ali and the Nigerian politician Peter Obi after him. The older sourced material is blunt. Shaw’s Major Barbara (1905) calls poverty the greatest of evils and the worst of crimes, and Goldsmith’s The Deserted Village (1770) has a line addressed to poetry: “that found’st me poor at first, and keep’st me so.” Mark Twain gets in a joke in 1869, saying that a man is fast rising from affluence to poverty.
Three entries are flagged. “Poverty is the worst kind of violence” is credited to Gandhi as disputed. A passage on love having hands to help others is credited to Augustine, also disputed. “Widespread poverty and concentrated wealth cannot long endure side by side in a democracy” is credited to Thomas Jefferson and flagged misattributed.
Most quoted on poverty:
They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home.
If you are poor now, Æmilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
Ants do not bend their ways to empty barns, so no friend will visit the place of departed wealth.
Real poverty comes only to those who indulge in food and drink. They have made themselves poor.
It was Lazarus faith, not his poverty, which brought him into Abraham's bosom.
For the first time in our history it is possible to conquer poverty.
The poverty pimps have to keep changing the definition of poor to keep the dollars flowing.