Rich Quotes

There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.

We see but the outside of a rich man's happiness; few consider him to be like the silkworm, that, when she seems to play, is at the very same time consuming herself.

Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth

Being a smart shopper is the first step to getting rich.

The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.

There are two ways to be rich in life: have what you want or want what you have.

Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return.

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

A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Rich grandparents get more attention than poor grandparents.

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

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.

People are experience-rich and theory-poor.

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

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

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.

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

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

Some people wanted to get rich or famous, but my friends and I wanted to get real. We wanted to get deep. (Also, I suppose, we wanted to get laid.)

One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured.

Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor - as long as you've got money.

You think I was born rich? I've worked really hard. You have no idea.

I'm delighted about the track's success in the sports world, but the frustrating thing is, I don't think I got rich on it. The labels and publishers did very cheap deals on our songs.

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

He will bring us all, rich and poor, white and black, to his judgment seat.

The Republican party still helps the rich and sticks a knife in the back of the poor.

I love making money, but you can't live your life waiting to get rich in a job that no longer feeds you artistically.

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

Giving is the business of the rich.

Everybody else, including the rich people, are willing to pay more. They want to pay more.

I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.

Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.

The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes.

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through.

O magnet-South! O glistening perfumed South! My South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! Good and evil! O all dear to me!

The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach, the rich man to get a stomach to his meat.

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

The centuries will burn rich loads With which we groaned, Whose warmth shall lull their dreaming lids, While songs are crooned: But they will not dream of us poor lads, Left in the ground.

I am definitely interested in soundtracks that one might associate with fantasy or sci-fi - they tend to be rich with musical ideas.

An ugly woman in a rich habit set out with jewels nothing can become.

In Land of Milk and Money, Anthony Barcellos mines rich family history to create a full-blooded tale that readers will find insightful, rewarding, and entertaining.