Quotes about Poverty
Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time.
— Elie Wiesel
Them that's got shall get,Them that's not shall lose,So the Bible said, and it still is news.Mama may have,Papa may have,But God bless the child that's got his own!
— Anonymous
When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out the window.
— Anonymous
Defraud not the poor of his living, and make not the needy eyes to wait long.
— Anonymous
The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
— Anonymous
And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites.
— Anonymous
Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat,Please to put a penny in the old man's hat;If you haven't got a penny, a ha'penny will do,If you haven't got a ha'penny, God bless you!
— Anonymous
The poor shall never cease out of the land.
— Anonymous
There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
— Anonymous
Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me.
— Anonymous
Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate.
— Anonymous
What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces and grind the faces of the poor?
— Anonymous