Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

-Allen,Woody pseudonym of  Allen Stewart Konigsberg
  Without Feathers,'Early Essays'.

Pees maketh plente; Plente maketh pride; Pride make plee; Plee maketh povert; Povert maketh pees. Peace makes plenty; Plenty makes pride; Pride makes lawsuits; Lawsuits make poverty; Poverty makes peace.

-Anonymous
c.1470  Untitled lyric.

That vast portion†of the working-class which, raw and half-developed has long lain half-hidden amidst its poverty and squalor, and is now issuing from its hiding- place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes,breaking what it likesötothisvast residuum we may with great propriety give the name of Populace.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Culture and  Anarchy, ch.3.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

-Baldwin,James Arthur
Nobody Knows My Name,'Fifth  Avenue, Uptown'.

L'avarice commence o  u' la pauvrete¤   cesse. Greed begins where poverty ends.

-Balzac, Honore¤   de
  Illusions perdues,'Les deux po e' tes'.

  Come away; poverty's catching.

-Behan, Brendan Francis
  The Rover, pt.2, act1.

Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs 6:10^11.

Therichman'swealthishisstrongcity: thedestructionof the poor is their poverty.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs10:15.

Is there for honest Poverty That hings his head, and a'that; The coward-slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a'that! For a'that, and a'that, Our toils obscure, and a'that, The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a'that.

-Burns, Robert
  'For a' that and a' that', stanza1.

This business of womanhood is a heavy burden† And these days it is worse, with the poverty of blackness on one side and the weight of womanhood on the other.

-Dangarembga,Tsitsi
  Nervous Conditions, ch.1.

Povertyand oysters always seem to go together.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^7  Sam Weller. Pickwick Papers, ch.22.

To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.

-Donleavy,J(ames) P(atrick)
  The Ginger Man, ch.2.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

-Washington Bailey
  Speech in Washington DC, commemorating the 24th anniversary of emancipation.

Today I see more clearly than yesterday that back of the problem of race and color, lies a greater problem which both obscures and implements it: and that isthefact that so many civilized persons are willing to live in comfort even if the price of this is poverty, ignorance and disease of the majority of their fellowmen; that to maintain this privilege men have waged war until today war tends to become universal and continuous, and the excuse for this war continues largely to be color and race.

-Du Bois,W(illiam) E(dward) B(urghardt)
Preface to reprint of  The Souls of Black Folk (1969).

There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

-Farquhar, George
  The Beaux' Stratagem, act1, sc.1.

Clothes make the poor invisible too: America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.

-Harrington, Michael
  The Other America: Poverty in the United States, ch.1.

Poverty has a home in Africaölike a quiet second skin.It may be the only place on earth where it is worn with unconscious dignity.

-Head, Bessie
  Tales of  Tenderness and Power.

Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man,

-Hesiod   c.8c

With fingers wearyand worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags Plying her needle and threadö Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt. And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang the'Song of the Shirt'.

-Honorius of Autun
  'The Song of the Shirt'.

We are nearer today to the ideal of the abolition of poverty and fear from the lives of men and women than ever before in any land.

-Hoover, Herbert Clark
  Presidential campaign speech, 22 Oct.