Subject: Money » Poverty (Page 3)

Our rabbi is so poor that if he didn’t fast every Monday and Thursday, he’d starve to death.

You know you poor when you eatin’ breakfast food late; you fryin’ toast?… at nine o’clock at night?… with bacon?… you’re broke.

(1957 – 2008) American comedian & actor

When you're poor, your Halloween costume is a liquor store box.

(1961 – ) American actor & comedian

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

(1886 – 1975) American fiction writer

If the guy was poor, I’d give it back.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

I used to sell furniture for a living… the trouble was, it was my own.

(1931 – 1993) English comedian

When I was born I owed twelve dollars.

(1889 – 1961) Am. playwright, theater director & producer & humorist

Three years ago I came to Florida without a nickel in my pocket. Now I’ve got a nickel in my pocket.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

It was all the wolf could do to keep us away from his door.

(1919 – 1985) Scottish comedian & actor

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

(1924 – 1987) American novelist, writer, playwright, poet & civil rights activist

We were so poor a robber once broke into our house and we ended up robbing the robber.

American football player

He found it inconvenient to be poor.

(1731 – 1800) English poet & hymn-writer

There were times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

(1900 – 1967) American film actor

He is so poor… he can't even pay attention.

I was so poor, I couldn't even pay attention.

I was so poor growing up if I wasn’t a boy, I’d have had nothing to play with.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

(1667 – 1745) Irish satirist & essayist

It's not hard to tell we was poor—when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline.

(1928 – 2012) American comedian & actor

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.

(1924 – 1997) Dutch-American artist