Famous quotes containing the words poverty and/or history:
“Better to go from poverty to riches than from riches to poverty.”
—Chinese proverb.
“What would we not give for some great poem to read now, which would be in harmony with the scenery,—for if men read aright, methinks they would never read anything but poems. No history nor philosophy can supply their place.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)