My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
Marquis de Sade

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.
Michelangelo

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

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

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
H. L. Mencken

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.
Eminem

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Henry Ward Beecher

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
Henry Ward Beecher

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.
Denis Waitley

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.
Gloria Steinem

But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered.
Barney Frank

For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.
Barney Frank

The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'
Robin Williams

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Francis Bacon

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
Francis Bacon