How often the rich like to play at being poor. A rather nasty game, I've always thought.

Think what stupid things the people must have done with their money who say they're 'happier without'.

He was always ready to pick a halfpenny out of the dirt with his teeth.

The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.

He was one of those born clever enough at gaining a fortune, but incapable of keeping one; for the qualities and energies which lead a man to achieve the first, are often the very cause of his ruin in the latter case.

If all men were rich, all men would be poor.

The greatest crime of welfare isn't that it's a waste of money, but that it's a waste of people.

Compared to us, poor was already rich.

I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is a temporary situation.

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be snagged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility.