The Rich Quotes

It is not worth the while to live by rich cookery.

You speak of poverty and dependence. Who are poor and dependent? Who are rich and independent? When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?

The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindu, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has been poorer in outward riches, none so rich inward.

Nature would not appear so rich, the profusion so rich, if we knew a use for everything.

Surely one may as profitably be soaked in the juices of a swamp for one day as pick his way dry-shod over sand. Cold and damp ? are they not as rich experience as warmth and dryness?

One who knew how to appropriate the true value of this world would be the poorest man in it. The poor rich man! all he has is whathe has bought.

A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government.

He is the rich man, and enjoys the fruit of his riches, who summer and winter forever can find delight in his own thoughts.

I am never rich in money, and I am never meanly poor.

A business which exists to make one man or one family rich, and whose existence is of no moment when this is achieved, is not solidly founded.

A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty.

Like water spilt upon the ground--alas, Our little lives flow swiftly on and pass; Yet may they bring rich harvests and green grass!

If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water.

Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich.

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

Rich people, God bless us. We deserve all the opportunities to make sure our country and our blessings continue to the next generation.

Americans have always had innovators and entrepreneurs who built real companies and create real value, but we should not and we will not respect those who get rich by cheating everybody else.

To heal divisions, to relieve the oppress'd, In virtue rich; in blessing others, bless'd.

Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.

Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to dispense them from admiration, a vulgar emotion.

God made not pleasures for the rich alone.

Change generally pleases the rich. [Lat., Plerumque gratae divitibus vices.]

Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.

If money is a form of speech, as the Supreme Court has regrettably found, rich donors will always be the loudest speakers.

I just want to be rich and famous.

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

I have a really dark, rich, thick sense of humor.

Actors are cave dwellers in a rich darkness which they love and hate.

Behind each biography there should always be a rich treasury of unformulated knowledge, a tapestry that has not been unrolled.

The rich pearl of life, Soon moulders in its blackened urn, the tomb.

If I had not passed through trial - through passion, one could say - through these years so painful and so rich, I don't believe I could take on my life and my career as I do today.

Energetic, inventive, swaggering fun, Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds is a consummate Hollywood entertainment--rich in fantasy and blithely amoral.

Smart, bold, and practical. I Will Teach You To Be Rich is packed with tips that actually work.

We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.

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

You should never value people according to the size of their bank balances. Being poor does not make them bad and being rich does not make them good

So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?

We’re taught at an early age that we’re not good enough. That someone else has to choose us in order for us to be…what? Blessed? Rich? Certified? Legitimized? Educated? Partnership material?

The Web is fascinating and transformative, but it's an easy, flashy, get-rich-quick option to the hard graft of proper industry.

To the lazy man the world appears bereft of all blessings; if poor, he has no friends; if rich, he has no ambition; he aims at nothing, and generally hits his mark.

Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries.

The Biblical worldview is not given to us in the discursive and analytical language of philosophy and science, but in rich and compact language of symbolism and art.

Oh no! Don't drag us away from Antartica and take us to the playground of the rich and famous! Not that briar patch! -Max

There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on.

I don't think you can have an imagination without having fantasy, and you can't have that rich a life without an imagination.

I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.

Three reasons not to have a [spending] plan: 1. You're rich enough to buy anything you want and still have plenty of money left over. 2. I forget the other two.

I enjoy how women dressed in the 1920s with the shimmering jewels and rich feathers.

Macon has such a rich musical history - and the state of Georgia, as well.

President Bush says he has just one question for the American voters, 'Is the rich person you're working for better off now than they were four years ago?'