Collection of famous sayings about poverty

1. Friendship between poverty and lowliness is not the same as wealth. Huang Tingjian, poet, lyricist, and calligrapher of the Northern Song Dynasty

2. Smashing pots to sell iron, scraping bones and scraping oil. Master of storytelling performance Shan Tianfang

3. Greedy people are always impoverished. Claude Lanners

4. Poverty builds masculinity. Ancient Roman poet Lucanus

5. Poverty teaches the poor everything. Ancient Roman dramatist Platus

6. The rich have toast, the poor have few friends. Historian, thinker, and writer of the Western Han Dynasty Sima Qian "Historical Records"

7. Poor people are often kind. Honored as Mahatma Gandhi, the founding father of modern India, Gandhi

8. Don’t forget the poor and have long friendships. Bao Zhao, a writer in the Southern Song Dynasty

9. Boasting about poverty is more despicable than boasting about wealth. Japanese writer Saito Midoriya

10. Rich people get along with others, poor people stay away from relatives. Cao Yu, official and writer of the Western Jin Dynasty

11. Poverty is the mother of all artistic professions. Toriano

12. If a family is rich, the family will be separated; if the family is poor, brothers will be separated.

13. The representative figure of Pre-Qin Legalism, Shenzi Shendao "Shenzi Nei Chapter"

14. The poor become rich because of books, and the rich become rich because of books. Wang Anshi, politician and writer of the Northern Song Dynasty

15. Rites and righteousness are born from wealth, while theft is born from poverty. Wang Fu, a political commentator and writer of the Eastern Han Dynasty

16. The many sins of wealth and wealth are not as good as those of poverty and lowliness. Ge Hong, a medical scientist, Taoist scholar and alchemist in the Eastern Jin Dynasty

17. Wealth and honor are not necessarily important, and poverty and lowliness are not necessarily light. Wang Fu, political commentator and writer of the Eastern Han Dynasty

18. Work always alienates boredom, bad things and poverty. "One of Life Skills" by French writer Molois

19. Hairpins and hairpins are rare in the world, but cloth skirts are still the attire for weddings.

20. "The Lover" by Tang Ge Ya'er. Jing Chai: Using Jing sticks as a hairpin. The general meaning of these two sentences is: There is a hairpin made of wattle sticks in the disheveled temples, and the cloth skirt she is wearing is still the one she wore when she got married. This is the poem of a concubine's wife. Through the outline of the character's appearance, the protagonist's life experience has been revealed. This poem was written by a woman. It is a song of resentment of working women. It can be used as a reference when writing about poor women.

21. Ge Ya'er, a female poet of the Tang Dynasty, "The Lover"

22. Being poor and lazy is really poor, being humble and having no ambition is really mean. French sculptor Rodin

23. But it is better to die in poverty and have a clear conscience than to go to court early. Lu You, a patriotic poet of the Southern Song Dynasty

24. Those who are lazy will suffer poverty; those who are diligent will be rich. "Bible"

25. When poverty comes in through the door, love slips out of the window. British historian Tuo Fuller

26. Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty. Ancient Greek thinker, philosopher, and educator Socrates

27. Poverty requires a lot, but greed desires everything. Ancient Roman philosopher Syrus

28. Those who do good will suffer poverty and shorten their lives, while those who do evil will enjoy wealth and longevity.

29. See the third chapter of Yuan Guan Hanqing's "The Injustice of Dou E". The general idea of ??these two sentences is that good people have a short life if they are poor, while evil people have a long life if they are rich. The two sentences use contrasting techniques to reveal and accuse the common phenomenon of the reversal of good and evil in feudal society from the different fates of good and evil people, reflecting the injustice and darkness of society.

30. "The Injustice of Dou E" by Yuan Dynasty playwright Guan Hanqing

31. Laziness moves so slowly that poverty will soon surpass it. American industrialist, scientist, social activist, thinker and diplomat Franklin

32. Labor frees people from three evils - boredom, evil and poverty.

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　33. If poverty is the mother of sin, then stupidity is the father of sin. French writer La Bruyère

34. Poverty and wealth can both degenerate workers and their works. Ancient Greek Philosopher Plato

35. Material deficiencies are easily remedied, but poverty of the soul cannot be remedied. French late Renaissance thinker Montaigne

36. Poverty wants a few things, luxury wants many things, but greed wants everything. Gaoli

37. Poverty, you are the source of human art, and you give great inspiration to poets. Aimure

38. Poverty will not erase a person’s noble qualities, but wealth will make people lose their ambition. Italian writer Boccaccio

39. It is virtue to be rich to be able to give; it is virtue to be poor to have nothing to ask for; it is virtue to be noble to have others neglect others; it is virtue to be humble to forget one's power. Ming Dynasty writer and thinker Lu Kun

40. Whoever gives up freedom that is richer than wealth because of fear of poverty will have to be a slave forever. Ancient Roman statesman Cicero

41. It’s hard to get humiliated on the crotch, and it’s hard to shepherd sheep even if you’re ridiculed for hundreds of miles. Aspiration can be hidden in ragged clothes, and poverty has been a pillar since ancient times! Ziyan

42. Although wealth has nothing to do with the quality of friendship, poverty is the best test of whether a friend's love and hate are true or false. British Renaissance playwright and poet Shakespeare

43. Poverty itself is not terrible. What is terrible is the thought that one is destined to be poor or will die of poverty. American industrialist, scientist, social activist, thinker and diplomat Franklin

　44. Revenge for the days of poverty! Buy a coat with a lining, and put coins in when you get on the bus. There is no discount for depositing a bicycle... Guo Degang, a cross talk, film and television actor, and TV talk show host

45. Most of the poverty in the world is caused by A disease is the result of bad life, bad environment and bad thoughts. Belgian musical instrument inventor Saxophone

46. You must have courage to deal with poverty, you must have courage to endure ridicule, and you must have courage to face the enemies in your own camp. British philosopher and historian Russell

47. Laziness and poverty are always shameful, so everyone will try their best to hide property from others and hide laziness from themselves. British writer Samuel Johnson

48. Shame, regret and poverty, the three goddesses in hell. Once you make a mistake, you will definitely fall into the hands of these three goddesses... English Renaissance playwright and poet Shakespeare

49. Those who can make others rich by being rich should not be poor if they want. That is; those who are able to be noble by being noble cannot be obtained if they want to be humble; those who are able to reach others by being noble cannot be obtained if they are poor.

50. Poverty is by no means glamorous or something to be learned from. For me, poverty has only taught me to overestimate the elegance of the rich or the upper class. American comedy film master Chaplin;