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

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

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
Thomas Hardy

I've always enjoyed poor health.
Taylor Caldwell

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.
King Solomon

He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.
Grover Cleveland

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.
Herman Melville

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

The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich.
Saadi

The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.
Saadi

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

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
Democritus

Of course people don't want war. Why should a poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best thing he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?
Hermann Goering

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

Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

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

Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.
Imelda Marcos

Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.
Imelda Marcos

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.
Imelda Marcos