Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
Jack London

I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.
Muhammad Yunus

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.
Muhammad Yunus

They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy.
Muhammad Yunus

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.
Robert Green Ingersoll

I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.
Toni Morrison

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
Euripides

When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
Euripides

Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.
Ray Kroc

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor - as long as you've got money.
Joe E. Lewis

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.
Jean Anouilh

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.
Lord Acton

It is a good deed to forget a poor joke.
Brendan Behan

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.
Albert Pike

I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.
Dorothy Day

I've always enjoyed poor health.
Taylor Caldwell

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Anatole France

The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Anatole France

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
Anatole France

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
Anatole France