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Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is. — Benjamin Franklin

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. — Jane Austen

If you are doing whatever a shepherd is ordering you to do, then you are a real sheep, a poor submissive being! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit? — Charles Dickens

The great thing about being rich is, you can embrace practices that kill the poor - that's what socialism does. — Greg Gutfeld

He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor. — Samuel Johnson

There's no future in being poor. — Robert Shaw

Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one. — Herbert Hoover

You can't help the poor by being one of them. — Abraham Lincoln

Being poor is a frame of mind. — Mike Todd

Part of the problem with a war on poverty today is that many Americans have decided that being poor is a character defect, not an economic condition. — Anna Quindlen

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living. — William Hazlitt

That's what it's like being poor - choices are something you sit around and dream about having, some day after you strike it rich. — David Wong

To be poor without murmuring is difficult. To be rich without being proud is easy. — Confucius

I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid. — Patrick Stewart

Being that you can never catch tomorrow ... you better start living today. — Timothy Pina

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time. — Willem De Kooning

Being poor is not like being a victim. Being poor means that you don't have one resource. — Kathy Calvin

Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it. — Cornel West

If there's one thing a goblin hates more than being poor, it's being dead. — Jamie Sedgwick

I am fighting a fight against oppression where the poor and women are being violated — Mukhtar Ma'i

we don't develop along these lines, we will have poor differentiation and a very fragile sense of self. We will feel overly anxious about being loved — Allen Berger

You don't need magic to be invisible in a town like this. Being poor works just the same. — C.M. Hayden

I have always suspected everyone who likes me of having poor judgment. I despise them for being so easily taken in. — Jerzy Kosinski

You reason like the king, who, being sent across the frontier, called out, 'What will become of my poor subjects without me?' — Peter Kropotkin

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us. — Lionel Trilling

When "doing" becomes divorced from "being", pious thoughts become a poor substitute for washing dirty feet. — Brennan Manning

Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing. — Margaret Heffernan

I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him. — John Thaw

It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor. — Larry Holmes

Being poor is not an indication of potential or worth. It's a lack of resources. — Kim Harrison

She had certainly learned about not having enough money, which is different from being poor. — Anna Quindlen

That's one of the disadvantages of being poor, you don't dare kill anybody. — Rex Stout

People ugly from ignorance and broken from being poor. — Zora Neale Hurston

Venice Beach: proof of the biological impossibility of imagining a person being simultaneously good-looking and poor. — Douglas Coupland

Poor is a state of mind. Broke is a state of wallet. You can fix being broke; it's not so easy to fix being poor. — Ric Edelman

Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened. — Madeleine M. Kunin

Being broke didn't seem so awful as it had yesterday, being broke but being at peace with the world.
("Don't Wait Up For Me Tonight") — Cornell Woolrich

After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair. — David Petraeus

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. — G.K. Chesterton

One thing that improved my cooking skills was being a poor student in California ... If you don't have much money, you have to learn to cook. — Diane Mott Davidson

There's another advantage to being poor - a doctor will cure you faster. — Kin Hubbard

Shun, as you would the plague, a cleric who from being poor has become wealthy, or who, from being nobody has become a celebrity. — St. Jerome

Being an altruist I have an urge in mylife to help poor's but im not Bill Gates — Bilal Bashir Magry

It's such a Bore Being always Poor. — Langston Hughes

But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I lay them at your feet. Tread lightly, for you tread on my dreams. — John Keats

The poor old Duke [of Wellington]! What shall I say of him? To be sure he was born in Ireland, but being born in a stable does not make a man a horse. — Daniel O'Connell

Compromise is low class. I don't have anything against the poor, but being low class is the root of all evil — Novala Takemoto

Being poor is only romantic in books. — Sidney Sheldon

It's okay to be proud of your good English. But don't be proud of being poor at your Mother tongue. Only the scum of the earth do that. — Manasa Rao

I'm proud that I've never stopped writing about being poor. — Eileen Myles

There is something in that name that seems to inspire absolute confidence. I pity any poor woman whose husband is not called Ernest. — Oscar Wilde

Life is short, and I'd rather be sitting in the poor house doing what I love doing than making a lot of money and being miserable. Life is very short. — Amber Benson

In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor. — Andrew Young

I don't really believe in the myth of being poor but happy. At the poorest times in my life, I wasn't happy. I was just hungry. — Ali Liebegott

Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting. — Jerome K. Jerome

Never stand around saying 'Poor thing' and being pitiful
when things are being killed. It makes them tough and harder to kill.
Remember that! — Knut Hamsun

I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation. — Mike Todd

Being is good, but getting rich is better ... If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as poor Caligula. — Albert Camus

Being poor is a state of mind, not a condition. — Alphonso Jackson

He really needed to stop being so hot while his hands were on me. — Veronica Blade

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition. — Dick Gregory

Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being. — Caitlin Moran

Africa is not poor, Africa is being looted — Omali Yeshitela

Social media has changed the world forever. We're not going to go backwards. People are not going to accept being poor, accept being excluded anymore. — Jim Yong Kim

You know I have loved him always.
But we are very poor.
Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden ... — Oscar Wilde

I'm tired of being a nice guy, I've been poor all my life, but don't know quite why. — Tupac Shakur

Being Christian towards poor people means trying to improve their lives and give them back some self-respect. — Jo Brand

When rich, being poor seems *adventurous.* — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I did it to myself. It wasn't society ... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing. — Ray Charles

That was the worst of being poor, you couldn't give the right things in sickness. — Ellen Glasgow

The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance. — Oscar Wilde

That is the power of the Eucharist. At the communion table you have rich and poor together in the early church and they were being challenged. — Shane Claiborne

Being too consumed in fear all the time will result in poor quality of life — Marie De France

There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches. — Ben Affleck

And when the middle of the afternoon came, from being a poor poverty-stricken boy in the morning, Tom was literally rolling in wealth. — Mark Twain

In this night, pure and everlasting, like an old fairy tale, being Turkish felt infinitely better than being poor. — Orhan Pamuk

You had to see yourself poor and think of yourself as being poor, or you never would have been poor. — Al Koran

There's only one thing worse than being sick...
and that's being sick and poor. — Lou Silluzio

A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about. — F Scott Fitzgerald

It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good. — Josh Billings

I've never had to do anything I didn't believe in. Sometimes that meant being poor and waitressing a while longer, but I've always stuck with it. — Linda Kozlowski

I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men. — Warren Farrell

The profession of letters is, after all, the only one in which one can make no money without being ridiculous. — Jules Renard

When a rich man dies it is more complex than when a poor man dies. A rich man doesn't simply quit living. He quits being rich, too. — Elliott Chaze

Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind. — Ajahn Chah

Only think of Mrs. Holder's being dead! Poor woman, she has done the only thing in the world she could possibly do to make one cease to abuse her. — Jane Austen

His conscience smote him. As smitings go, it wasn't much, his conscience being in poor fighting condition. — Loretta Chase

You should never value people according to the size of their bank balances. Being poor does not make them bad and being rich does not make them good — Jackie Ballard

There is nothing wrong with being poor; but there is everything wrong with remaining poor after you have discovered your riches in Christ. — Chris Oyakhilome

Thou art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most lov'd, despis'd! Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon. — William Shakespeare

Poor practices are blunting email marketing's effectiveness and keeping its ROI from being truly awesome. — Chad White

I knew what it was like to be poor, and that once you had become rich, anything was better than being poor again. — Belinda Alexandra

Who, being love, is poor? Oscar Wilde — Vikki Wakefield

Being sick robs a person of their health and being poor robs them of life's luxuries, but being pitied robs them of their will to live. — Bette Lee Crosby

Aloneness is a state of being, whereas loneliness is a state of feeling. It's like the difference between being broke and being poor. — Townes Van Zandt

Who, being loved, is poor? — Oscar Wilde

In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less — Christian Nestell Bovee

It's a full-time job being homeless. It's a full-time job being poor. — John Connolly