He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.
Emily Dickinson

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
Saint Augustine

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

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

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
Lord Byron

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
Frank Lloyd Wright

I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?
Jackie Kennedy

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.
Dolly Parton

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.
Oprah Winfrey

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
Charles Spurgeon

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
Charles Darwin

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.
Henny Youngman

I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds.
Joan Rivers

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
Plutarch

Very few people can afford to be poor.
George Bernard Shaw

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
George Bernard Shaw

He who hesitates is poor.
Mel Brooks

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
Rainer Maria Rilke