Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: but with
poverty everything becomes frightful.
[Fr., L'or meme read more

Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: but with
poverty everything becomes frightful.
[Fr., L'or meme a la laideur donne un teint de beaute:
Mais tout devient affreux avec la pauvrete.]

The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the
trimmings of the vain.

The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the
trimmings of the vain.

For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.

For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.

Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe,
That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me read more

Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe,
That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.

The mother of revolution and crime is poverty

The mother of revolution and crime is poverty

When you're really poor, everything you see
is something you can't have.

When you're really poor, everything you see
is something you can't have.

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends $500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only $53 annually read more

It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends $500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only $53 annually on the victims of poverty.

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to read more

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