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

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
Sojourner Truth

Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
Sitting Bull

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

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
Benjamin Disraeli

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
Thomas Carlyle

Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.
Desmond Tutu

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
Michel de Montaigne

Know how and how much to tip people who expect gratuities, even in the case of poor service.
Marilyn vos Savant

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.
Leon Trotsky

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
George Eliot

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
Flannery O'Connor

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
Vernon Howard

We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.
Wangari Maathai

We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.
John Kenneth Galbraith

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.
John Kenneth Galbraith