Famous Quotes & Sayings

Juvenal

The traveler without money will sing before the robber. [Lat., Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.]

W. S. Merwin

I offer you what I have my Poverty

Walter Savage Landor

Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.

George Gissing

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

Napoleon Hill

Poverty is no disgrace. But it is certainly not a recommendation.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.

Nelson Mandela

While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.

Kirk Douglas

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

Pam Grier

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

Samuel Johnson

Wealth is nothing in itself; it is not useful but when it departs from us.

Roger Ebert

We exist to have our wealth moved up the economic chain out of our reach.

William E. Gladstone

Commerce is the equalizer of the wealth of nations.

Henry George

The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the general stock.

James Cook

Money without wisdom diminishes the pleasure and enjoyment of wealth.

Norman Vincent Peale

Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.

Robert Luketic

It's not going to be contemptuous of wealth and ambition,

Ann Thompson

They were wealthy and there have to be more.

Noam Chomsky

Palestinians have no wealth or power.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Love, from its very nature, must be transitory.