The Rich Quotes

Family photos, pictures of groups, those are truely wonderful. And they are just as good as the old masters, just as rich and just as beautifully composed (what does that mean anyway).

Britain needs a simpler tax system which is simple to understand, where there are no loop-holes, where the very rich do not avoid tax by employing expensive accountants

Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.

Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern.

A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.

It strikes everyone in beginning to form an acquaintance with the treasures of Indian literature that a land so rich in intellectual products and those of the profoundest order of thought.

Illness is the great equalizer. It doesn't matter who you are, rich or poor, young or old, fat or thin, sick is sick.

Ideas don't make you rich. The correct execution of ideas does.

Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.

It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.

If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

Life is always rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.

How to get rich ... whenever I meet people, that's usually what they want to know from me. You ask a banker how he makes bread. You ask a billionaire how he makes money.

I wish I were either rich enough or poor enough to do a lot of things that are impossible in my present comfortable circumstances.

It's interesting to be an adult and to have that level of ignorance about something, because the nice part about is you get that discovery. The learning curve is so rich and steep.

America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.

Financial education needs to become a part of our national curriculum and scoring systems so that it's not just the rich kids that learn about money.. it's all of us.

Regardless of what the tour pros think, golf is a rich and varied game, and what all of us awkward fools do on weekends is what golf is truly all about.

I met so many people after I got rich and famous, and I learned that you can't ultimately trust people unless they were your friends when you were broke.

Babies don't know who's rich and who's poor. You love 'em and they're happy.

It took me 20 years to learn I couldn't tune too well. And by that time I was too rich to care.

If beating yourself up worked you'd be rich, thin, and happy. Try loving yourself instead.

Rich white guys. That's the true minority.

If all you succeed in doing in life is getting rich by buying little pieces of paper, it's a failed life. Life is more than being shrewd in wealth accumulation.

Come, then," returned the nephew gaily. "What right have you to be dismal? What reason have you to be morose? You're rich enough.

Bad luck for the young poet would be a rich father, an early marriage, an early success or the ability to do anything well.

I do not come from a rich family, but I come from a really good family.

The record company's worst fear is that you'll fall in love or get rich.

I've traveled all over the world and America is the easiest place to get rich.

RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless.

Life is too brief and too rich to tiptoe through half-heartedly, rather than galloping at it with whooping excitement and ambition.

This is an absolute law: You've got to be rich inside to become and remain rich outside. Become rich inside and your mental equivalent will manifest in your experience.

A foreign ideology cannot be introduced into Chechnya - were it through an Arab or al-Qaeda. Our experience is rich and long enough for us to be Muslims and know what jihad is.

Tourism has affected Cuba, because tourists come and they bring racist, sexist ideas. They bring a whole vision that there are rich people all over the world and that's the way it should be.

I have lived to prove Thoreau's contention that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

Senator John Kerry released his plan today to eliminate the deficit. He said all we have to do is find a really rich country like Switzerland and marry it.

Becoming rich isn't as much about getting rich financially as about whom you become, in character and mind, to get rich.

I prefer a kind of sweet, deep, rich prayer in which a person goes in and says, Take me down deep into the reason you gave me life. Take me down deep. It silences the chaos in me.

Have you ever seen a candidate talking to a rich person on television?

Rich people are bigger than their problems. Poor people are smaller than their problems.

The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.

Money makes life easier but I don't want to be rich, not at all.

Mostly, you become a writer not because you want to get rich or famous, but because you have to write; because there is something inside that must come out.

A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.

Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich, my virtue then shall be To say there is no vice but beggary

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

I do not interfere, and people become rich by themselves.

Let us work in partnerships between rich and poor to improve the opportunities of all human beings to build better lives.

The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.