Financial Strife Quotes

The extreme profligacy, improvidence, and misery which are so prevalent among the laboring classes in many countries are chiefly to be ascribed to the want of education.

A trifling debt makes a man your debtor; a large one makes him an enemy.

The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.

Austerity need not be Europe's fate.

We don't fight about money... I hate to see people fight about money.

Life is more than a theory, and love of truth butters no bread: old men who have had to struggle along their way, who know the endless bitterness, the grave moral deterioration which follow an empty exchequer, may well be pardoned for an over-wish to see their sons secured from it; hunger, at least, is a reality.

I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

It is simply not credible to tackle child poverty without acknowledging the worst issue - a lack of money.