Poverty is the mother of all the arts. Poor men's tables are soon spread. The poorest man in the world is he who has nothing but money. Poverty is the mother of invention. The poor must dance as the rich pipe.
Poverty shows as who our friends are and who are our enemies.
There is no virtue that poverty does not destroy. When poverty comes in the door, love goes our the window. Old age and poverty are wounds that can't be healed. Sloth is the mother of poverty. What is the matter with the poor is poverty.