poverty Quotes

Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.

It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.