Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Poverty consists in feeling poor. Emerson.

Poverty demoralises. Emerson.

Poverty ever comes at the call. Goldsmith.

Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness. 15 Pr.

Poverty, incessant drudgery, and much worse evils, it has often been the lot of poets and wise men to strive with, and their glory to conquer. Carlyle.

Poverty is but as the pain of piercing the ears of a maiden, and you hang jewels in the wound. Jean Paul.

Poverty is in want of much, avarice of everything. Pub. Syr.

Poverty is no crime and no credit. Pr.

Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed 20 of it is. Pr.

Poverty is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance. It is the care of a great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by temporary expedients, and everyday is lost in contriving for to-morrow. Johnson.