The Rich Quotes

there is still an overwhelming social compulsion-an insanity of consensus, if you will-to get rich from life rather than live richly, to “do well” in the world instead of living well.

I was never one of those girls who dreamt of Prince Charming. To piss off my mom, I would say, 'I'm never having kids and I'm going to be a fabulously rich old maid with cute butlers and dogs.'

The giver gives, but really he is sowing the seed for later, the gift of a rich harvest.

Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.

Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both.

Abundance is about being rich, with or without money.

Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul.

Rich people think BIG. Poor people think small.

The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine

The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere in eternity.

The difference between the rich and the poor is that the rich have learned to recognize the value of their thoughts.

If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood.

The ruling class is the rich. . . . And those people are so able to manipulate our democracy that they really control the democracy.

Cacao is rich in happy phenethylamine chemicals called PEA. These compounds have been associated with feeling good and falling in love.

I have been poor and I have been rich. Rich is better.

The rich are different from us.

Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.

Sane is rich and powerful. Insane is wrong and poor and weak. The rich are free, the poor are put in cages. Res Ipsa Loquitur, amen. Mahalo.

I'm from a middle class family. I didn't grow-up rich, but I didn't grow-up poor. Each guy has to stick to his own story.

Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.

A soul which is conversant with virtue is like an ever flowing source, for it is pure and tranquil and potable and sweet and communicative (social) and rich and harmless and free from mischief.

Although I grew up in very modest and challenging circumstances, I consider my life to be immeasurably rich.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

So I fell in love with a rich attorney's Elderly ugly daughter.

No matter whether you are a physician, a teacher, or a clergyman, if you can give increase of life to others and make them sensible of that fact, they will be attracted to you, and you will get rich.

The green tempts me to make the rich the enemy, and take their cheese.

Paris... is a world meant for the walker alone, for only the pace of strolling can take in all the rich (if muted) detail.

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.

Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers.

And the needles of the pine trees, freshly washed to a deep, rich green, shimmered with droplets that blinked like clear crystals.

In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.

Both success and failure are largely the results of HABIT!

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Populists hate journalists, they hate teachers, they hate lawyers, but they tend to like rich people. There's something deeply consistent.

One destitute of wealth is not destitute, he is indeed rich, but the man devoid of learning is destitute in every way.

Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.

Sons or fathers, poor men or rich men, sacred or secular: all are homosexual in their worship of everything phallic.

Obama seems to want to do something to damage rich people.

Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.

Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

What lawsuits grow out of the graves of rich men, every day; sowing perjury, hatred, and lies among near kindred, where there should be nothing but love!

Doing more and more with less and less is one form of being generous. In fact, the easiest way to become rich is by being generous.

I like to imagine, if I was in the 1930s and was rich and a psychopathic killer, I probably would be moving about very freely and having a lot of fun.

Inside each of you is a rich person, a poor person & a middle class person. It is up to you to decide which person you become.

We wouldn't want to be like the Swiss, would we? That would be awful! We'd be rich!

If you fail to control your own mind, you may be sure you will control nothing else.

Failures give us wisdom. Your failures are just as valuable and rich with blessings. But you must be willing to contemplate them, ask what lesson they have for you, and apply it the next time around.