Best poverty & idleness Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The haggardness of poverty is everywhere seen contrasted with the sleekness of wealth, the exhorted labour of some compensating for the idleness of others, wretched hovels by the side of stately colonnades, the rags of indigence blended with the ensigns of opulence; in a word, the most useless profusion in the midst of the most urgent wants.”

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“Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open foes. The debt habit is the twin brother of poverty.”

Secret Poverty Brother Habit Vices Debt Twins Foe Idleness Thrift Twin Brother

Author:Theodore T. Munger

“Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.”

Poor Poverty Folly Idleness Extravagance Intemperance Dishonorable

Author:Plutarch

“The state, by relieving idleness, improvidence, or misconduct from punishment, and depriving abstinence and foresight of the reward, which have been provided for them by nature, may indeed destroy wealth, but most certainly will aggravate poverty.”

May Has Beens States Wealth Poverty Rewards Punishment Idleness Foresight Abstinence Depriving Misconduct

Author:Nassau William Senior

“To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.”

Men Care Poor Poverty Every Man Endeavor Idle Unemployment Idleness Reproach

Book:The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ...

Source: The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ...

“Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.”

Night Easy Difficult Poverty Industry Late All Things Awe Laziness Idleness Poor Richard Scarce Sloth Awe Inspiring

Book:Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin

Source: Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin

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