Posts Tagged “poor”

We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition.

- William James

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It’s easy to have principles when you’re rich. The important thing is to have principles when you’re poor.

- Ray Kroc

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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

- Benjamin Franklin

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We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

- E. M. Forster

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