After a divorce, men’s biggest fear is, typically, losing their children (women’s is poverty).
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:
It is good to be told, in a world often marked by violence, poverty, and despair, that God loves us.
When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.
Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.
Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride.
The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.
Poverty is the lack of many things, but avarice is the lack of all things.
Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace.
Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
A free people will always refuse to put up with preventable poverty.