A Quote by Milton Berle

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

Milton Berle

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Disgrace Inconvenient Poverty Terribly

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Milton Berle
American - Comedian
July 12, 1908 - March 27, 2002

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

Sydney Smith

It's no disgrace to be old. But damn if it isn't inconvenient.

Moms Mabley

It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient.

James Weldon Johnson

Poverty" Pitt exclaimed "is no disgrace but it is damned annoying." In the contemporary United States it is not annoying but it is a disgrace.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Poverty is no disgrace. But it is certainly not a recommendation.

Napoleon Hill

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

William Pitt

I think the TAC was just a disgrace, a disgrace not only to the [health] department but a disgrace to the whole country. But I think, as South Africa, we really demonstrated that we are doing pretty well.

Manto Tshabalala-Msimang

First, I was so dazzled and besotted by India. People said the poverty was biblical, and I'm afraid that was my attitude, too. It's terribly easy to get used to someone else's poverty if you're living a middle-class life in it. But after a while, I saw it wasn't possible to accept it, and I also didn't want to.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.

Thucydides

Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.

Bertrand Russell

It's important to listen to what scientists have to say, even when it's inconvenient, especially when it's inconvenient

Barack Obama

My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.

Alvin Ailey

Censorship, by definition, is suppression of objectionable material that can be harmful or inconvenient. Since when has it become inconvenient or dangerous for a young woman to be confused in love?

Kanika Dhillon

Today there are a huge number of think tanks working on poverty-related issues; there are books written on the topic; and university centers being created to study poverty. But, at the same time, the media has a terribly hard time with this issue; it's very hard to convince editors and publishers to devote resources to complex investigations of the lives of America's poor. And, as a result, too often poverty is portrayed in stereotypes, in sound bites, in a few pat images rather than in its full Technicolor complexity and diversity.

Sasha Abramsky

Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but a real degredation to make no effort to overcome.

Thucydides

In politics, readily dismissing inconvenient people can easily extend to dismissing inconvenient truths about them.