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| All is lost when the people fear death less than poverty. Chinese. | 1 |
| A narrow fortune is a cramp to a great mind. L’Estrange. | 2 |
| A threadbare coat is armor proof against highwaymen. | 3 |
| Bear wealth—poverty will bear itself. | 4 |
| Better be poor than wicked. | 5 |
| Better poor with honor than rich with shame. Dutch. | 6 |
| Deep draughts and long morning slumbers soon make a man poor. Danish. | 7 |
| Do not through fear of poverty surrender liberty. (Fable of the horse and the stag.) | 8 |
| Every one likes to wipe his shoes on poverty. German. | 9 |
| Hard is the path from poverty to renown. Latin. | 10 |
| He bears poverty very ill who is ashamed of it. | 11 |
| He becometh poor who dealeth with a slack hand. Bible. | 12 |
| He has no share in the sun, i.e., is abjectly poor. Modern Greek. | 13 |
| He whose expenses exceed his receipts shall come to poverty. Sri Lankan. | 14 |
His wit got wings and would have flown,
But poverty still kept him down. | 15 |
| Honest poverty is thinly sown. French. | 16 |
| How many sink into the sordid hut of cheerless poverty. Thomson. | 17 |
| If you would grow poor without perceiving it employ workmen and go to sleep. Portuguese. | 18 |
| It is hard to find one who bears poverty with a noble spirit. Aristides. | 19 |
| It is more easy to praise poverty than to bear it. Italian. | 20 |
| It is no sin to be poor. German. | 21 |
| Kin or no kin, woe to him who has nothing. Italian. | 22 |
| My poverty, not my will, consents. Shakespeare. | 23 |
| No better masters than poverty and want. Dutch. | 24 |
| No man lives so poor as he was born. | 25 |
| Nothing to be got without pains but poverty. | 26 |
| Old age and poverty are two heavy burthens, either is enough. German. | 27 |
| Pain, distress, and poverty have frightful looks. Locke. | 28 |
| Poverty and hunger have many learned disciples. German. | 29 |
| Poverty and love are hard to hide. | 30 |
| Poverty breeds strife. | 31 |
| Poverty craves many things, but avarice more. Italian. | 32 |
| Poverty has no kin. Italian. | 33 |
| Poverty has no shame. Spanish. | 34 |
| Poverty is a complication of evils. | 35 |
| Poverty is a good that all men hate. German. | 36 |
| Poverty is a shirt of fire. Turkish. | 37 |
| Poverty is a sort of leprosy. French. | 38 |
| Poverty is cunning, it catches even a fox. German. | 39 |
| Poverty is death in another form. Latin. | 40 |
| Poverty is no shame, but being ashamed of it is. German. | 41 |
| Poverty is no sin. French, Spanish. | 42 |
| Poverty is no sin, but it is a branch of roguery. Spanish. | 43 |
| Poverty is no sin, but it is terribly inconvenient. | 44 |
| Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it is the effect of idleness, intemperance, prodigality and folly. Plutarch. | 45 |
| Poverty is shamefully borne by a sluggard. | 46 |
| Poverty is shamed and persecuted all over the globe. Lucan. | 47 |
| Poverty is the daughter of laziness. German. | 48 |
| Poverty is the mother of all arts. Italian. | 49 |
| Poverty is the mother of health. | 50 |
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| Poverty is the reward of idleness. Dutch. | 51 |
| Poverty is the sister of a sound mind. | 52 |
| Poverty is the sixth sense. German. | 53 |
| Poverty is the worst guard to chastity. | 54 |
| Poverty makes a man acquainted with strange bedfellows. | 55 |
| Poverty makes a man mean. | 56 |
| Poverty never sped well in love. Portuguese. | 57 |
| Poverty on an old man’s back is a heavy burthen. | 58 |
| Poverty parteth friends (or fellowship). | 59 |
| Poverty shows us who are our friends and who are our enemies. Latin. | 60 |
| Poverty trieth friends. | 61 |
| Pride and poverty are ill met yet often together. | 62 |
| Prison and Lent were made for the poor. Spanish. | 63 |
| The poverty of the poor shall be at an end when they shall learn to minister to the wants of each other. Sri Lankan. | 64 |
| The worst part of poverty is to bear it impatiently. | 65 |
| Their rise is one of difficulty whose minds are impeded by poverty. Latin. | 66 |
| They only are ashamed of poverty who are poor against their will. Aristides. | 67 |
| Though poverty bring sorrow, riches create inquietude. | 68 |
| To be poor the Greeks did not hold scandalous unless it was due to one’s own indiscretion. Fielding. | 69 |
| To be poor without being free is the worst state into which man can fall. French. | 70 |
| To feed many persons and to build many houses is the readiest way to poverty. Greek. | 71 |
Unmanly poverty subdues the heart,
Cankers each wound and sharpens every dart. Callinachus. | 72 |
| When money is sent flying out of the window, it’s poverty comes in at the door. | 73 |
Who doth sing so merry a note,
As he who cannot change a groat? | 74 |
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