Rich Quotes

You've got to be rich to have a swing like that.

Our response to the world is essentially one of wonder, of confronting the mysterious with a sense, not of being small, or insignificant, but of being part of a rich and complex narrative.

Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.

...funny how people want a return to the good ole days. Of coarse the good ole days of being a rich white plantation owner. Everyone seems to forget the poor white farmer.

My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'.

I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.

In order to deal with all the medical cost demands and other challenges in the U.S., as we look to raise that revenue, the rich will have to pay slightly more. That's quite clear.

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ's name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.

The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a lot of money can buy you a little more happiness. But in both cases, money does it.

Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects.

The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.

I'm a little lavish I must admit. But I'm not really concerned with money. Being rich is not my goal, being wealthy is.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

For the rich, it's not about getting more stuff. It's about having the freedom to make almost any decision you want.

I'm busier than ever and it's led to new opportunities. But I've never worried about being rich or famous - for me, it's all about the dancing.

The ban on sports betting does exactly what Prohibition did. It makes criminals rich.

If Thy dear home be fuller, Lord, For that a little emptier. My house on earth, what rich rewards. That guerdon were.

What would the daughters of the rich do with themselves if the poor ceased to exist?

We should be a rich country again, and if we do that, we can leave Social Security.

The rich get richer and the poor get - children.

Isn't Hollywood a dump-in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement.

There is no get-rich-quick scheme equal to a poor girl marrying a rich man.

One may reject such proposals as something that will hurt merit but the ground reality is students from such sections do not have the same access to quality education that rich students enjoy.

Nobody prefers to earn income any more, because that's taxable. Rich people prefer to make capital gains.

... occasionally I see rich-looking women on Rollerblades gripping leashes and being towed bodily by golden retrievers. That's my kind of jogging.

The poor man's price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect.

People are experience-rich and theory-poor.

Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people.

Asked, Who is the rich man? Epictetus replied, �He who is content.

Rich grandparents get more attention than poor grandparents.

The man who is rich in fancy thinks that his wagon is already built; poor fool, he does not know that there are a hundred timbers to a wagon.

I'm always slightly envious of people who become extremely rich without anyone knowing who the hell they are, like financiers.

There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for titles, except that of the titled for riches.

So much of literary sci-fi is about creating worlds that are rich and detailed and make sense at a social level. We'll create a world for people and then later present a narrative in that world.

Whatever qualities the rich may have, they can be acquired by anyone with the tenacity to become rich.

We must make organic the conventional choice and not the exception available only to the rich and educated.

If it's wrong for 13-year-old inner-city girls to have babies without the benefit of marriage, it's wrong for rich celebrities, and we ought to stop putting them on the cover of People magazine.

Fore God, you have here a goodly dwelling and a rich.

Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.

Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them.

To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when we expose the impotence of gold.

If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.

Extravagance is the rich man's pitfall.

In love, as in finance, only the rich can get credit.

While President Bush's tax give-aways for the rich are pushing us further into debt, he compensates by increasing the out-of-pocket costs to our veterans.

Mean Streets dealt with the American Dream, according to which everybody thinks they can get rich quick, and if they can't do it by legal means then they'll do it by illegal ones.

The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives.

From borrowing one gets poorer and from work one gets richer.

Old among the young, poor among the rich, I adopt an air of indefinable superiority.