Poor Rich Quotes

But one day we shall be rich, and the next poor. One day we shall dine in a palace and the next we'll sit in a forest and toast mushrooms on a hatpin.

The gap between the rich and the poor cannot keep growing without nothing being done about it.

One of the Great Rules of Economics According to John Green If you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart to get rich.

Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor, at least no one worth speaking of.

I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

People are experience-rich and theory-poor.

If the rich could hire others to die for them we, the poor, would all make a nice living.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.

Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.

Socially, I never belonged to any class, rich or poor. To the rich I was poor, and to the poor I was poor pretending to be like the rich.

The issue of world environment has a special kind of urgency... The issue is one of rich peoples and poor peoples, of the growing gap between the two, and of the rich fouling their own nests.

There is a world-wide conflict between capital and labour, and the poor envy the rich.

I think this has been a class war waged by the rich against the poor, and I think that they won. And I think the poor are fighting back.

We're not so poor that we have to spend our wilderness or so rich that we can afford to.

The free market is 'socialism' for the rich: the public pays the costs and the rich get the benefit - markets for the poor and plenty of state protection for the rich.

The theater is a great equalizer: it is the only place where the poor can look down on the rich.

If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable.

The rich are never threatened by the poor - they do not notice them.

Conservatives want to make the poor rich, while liberals want to make the rich poor.

Decades of Saddam’s rule made what could have been a fairly rich country, due to its oil reserves, into a very poor one.

....All drugs should be legal. War is wrong. The rich get richer. The poor get poorer. Thank you. I'll be here all week.

If you're rich you can buy books. If you're poor, you need a library.

We are not so poor we must destroy our wilderness, nor so rich we can afford to.

There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war, or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.

We say the United States is a rich country, but how can we be rich when millions of poor American children go to bed hungry?

Men are not rich or poor according to what they possess but to what they desire. The only rich man is he that with content enjoys a competence.

That's the story of my life rich or poor and mostly poor and truly poor.

I spend time with people who are movers and shakers, and others who are just friends I really care for. Some of them are rich, some of them are poor. I couldn't care less. I'm not a snob.

To put it quite crudely ... the poor don't really know how the rich live, and the rich don't know how the poor live, and to find out is really enchanting to both of them.

It's always the rich and there's plenty to waste, yet still China has a lot of people living in very spare, poor conditions.

For rich people, the sky is just an extra, a gift of nature. The poor, on the other hand, can see it as it is, a gift of infinite grace.

The law ... allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges.

It is easier to give all your goods to feed the poor, or not to have any goods - only your virtues, to boast of - than it is to judge the rich with charity.

The bonus is really one of the great give-aways in business enterprise. It is the annual salve applied to the conscience of the rich and the wounds of the poor.

The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much. He is not rich that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is not poor that enjoys little, but he that wants too much.

Rich by nature, poor by policy' might be written over Canada's door.

That rich guy you've been seeing, must have put you down. Welcome back baby, to the poor side of town.

My visions of the future are always pretty much standard issue. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer and there are flying cars.

People are experience-rich and theory-poor. I help people organize / make sense of their experiences.

More powerful than God, more evil than the Devil; the poor have it, the rich lack it, and if you eat it you die?

Coming age is the age of knowledge. However rich, poor or powerful a country be, if they want to move ahead, only knowledge can lead them to that path.

I went to university with no money. I can't understand a society that wouldn't give a poor person the same opportunity as a rich person.

I neither look up to the rich or down to the poor.

Thou art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most lov'd, despis'd! Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon.

We learned many years ago that the rich may have money, but the poor have time.

Content makes poor men rich discontent makes rich men poor.

Every time the rich ignore the poor, the rich become poorer! Poorest is the person who has all the means to help others but chooses not to!

Give dry bread to a rich kid and he will throw it into the dustbin, give it to the poor kid and he will remember your name for the rest of his days

Rich people were not rich if there were no poor.