Talk:Poverty

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty

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• Wealth converts a strange land into homeland and poverty turns a native place into a strange land.
  • Ali ibn Abi Talib

• The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit. And one never really forgets either — everything serves as a constant reminder of it.
  • Eli Khamarov

• It's the same the whole world over,
  It's the poor wot gets the blame,
  It's the rich wot gets the gravy.
  Ain't it all a bleedin' shame?
  • Chorus of the song "She was Poor but she was Honest", popular among British Army soldiers during the First World War.

• If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
  • Bernard Baruch
  • Also attributed, in various forms, to Abraham Maslow and others, as the Law of the Instrument.

• Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.
  • Don Herold (1889-1966), American Humorist

Anonymous

• Beg help and you will meet with refusals; ask for alms and you will meet with misers.
  • Anonymous

• A poor man has no friends.
  • Anonymous

• He who has no house has no word in society.
  • Anonymous

• Poverty is no disgrace, but it's a great inconvenience.
  • English Proverb (16th Century).

• Beggars cannot be choosers.
  • English proverb (16th Century).