It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
Lewis Carroll

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
Pablo Picasso

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.
Albert Camus

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.
John Steinbeck

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Charles Dickens

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!
Charles Dickens

Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
Groucho Marx

Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.
Bill Gates

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
Adam Smith

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.
Adam Smith

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
Adam Smith

The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.
Carl Jung

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
Alexander Pope

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
Alexander Pope

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
Alexander Pope

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
W. C. Fields

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
Robert Frost

We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.
Henry Miller

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?
Princess Diana

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.
Jerome K. Jerome