Talk:Poverty

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty

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 * Wealth converts a strange land into homeland and poverty turns a native place into a strange land.
 * Ali ibn Abi Talib


 * The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.
 * Franklin D. Roosevelt


 * Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit. And one never really forgets either — everything serves as a constant reminder of it.
 * Eli Khamarov


 * It's the same the whole world over, It's the poor wot gets the blame, It's the rich wot gets the gravy. Ain't it all a bleedin' shame?
 * Chorus of the song "She was Poor but she was Honest", popular among British Army soldiers during the First World War.


 * If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
 * Bernard Baruch
 * Also attributed, in various forms, to Abraham Maslow and others, as the Law of the Instrument.


 * Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.
 * Don Herold (1889-1966), American Humorist

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 * Beg help and you will meet with refusals; ask for alms and you will meet with misers.
 * Anonymous


 * A poor man has no friends.
 * Anonymous


 * He who has no house has no word in society.
 * Anonymous


 * Poverty is no disgrace, but it's a great inconvenience.
 * English Proverb (16th Century).


 * Beggars cannot be choosers.
 * English proverb (16th Century).