Poverty is taking your children to the hospital and spending the whole day waiting with no one even taking your name, and then coming back the next day, and the next, until they finally get around to you

Quote by Janice Bradshaw

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Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things

Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things

The best way to help the poor is not to become one of them

The best way to help the poor is not to become one of them

Who, being loved, is poor?

Who, being loved, is poor?

In all human affairs there are efforts and there are results, and the strength of...

In all human affairs there are efforts and there are results, and the strength of...

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians...

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians...

And makes me poor indeed.

And makes me poor indeed.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man...

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man...

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

I have found out in later years [that] we were very poor, but the glory...

I have found out in later years [that] we were very poor, but the glory...

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of...

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of...

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that...

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that...

The mother of revolution and crime is poverty

The mother of revolution and crime is poverty

Painless poverty is better than embittered wealth

Painless poverty is better than embittered wealth

All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich

All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich

Come away; poverty's catching

Come away; poverty's catching

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an...

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an...