The Rich Quotes

If I get home, I'll be so stinking rich, I'll be able to pay someone to do my hearing.

Elizabeth ... had the prerogative of the rich that she could be generous with large sums and niggardly over small ones.

France, they're the world champion at soaking the rich on taxes. And at one point, they had what they called a hyper tax, 75 percent, and Gérard Depardieu and many others left the country.

Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.

When you are rich, people try to take advantage of you.

I'd rather be smart and poor than rich and dumb.

My motives at a young age were, "I want to be rich and famous".

Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history.

Money makes people rich; it is a fallacy to think it makes them better, or even that it makes them worse. People are what they do, and what they leave behind.

For me, the main point is that reality is rich. We can respond to it more immediately and directly, in ways where there's less displacement between representation and reality.

The chief-justice was rich, quiet, and infamous.

Cheating is baseball's oldest profession. No other game is so rich in skullduggery, so suited to it or so proud of it.

Let the fruition of things bless the possession of them, and take no satisfaction in dying but living rich.

Wealth has more and more increased, and at the same time gathered itself more and more into masses, strangely altering the old relations, and increasing the distance between the rich and the poor.

Communism was a great system for making people equally poor - in fact, there was no better system in the world for that than communism. Capitalism made people unequally rich.

I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.

A rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful Land, traversing all the seas with the rich production of their Industry.

If love be treasure, we'll be wondrous rich.

Do we give thanks to God 'for his unspeakable gift' and His rich blessings so abundantly bestowed upon us?

She might not be as beautiful, or as smart or as rich as all the rest of them. But she had her pride

Unbeknownst to most fun-loving bipeds, not all stress is bad. Indeed, the New Rich don't aim to eliminate all stress. Not in the least.

Jesus smashed two of the rich young ruler's assumptions: Christianity is something you can ADD and something you can DO.

There's just an incredibly rich and interesting relationship between our listening to music and the way our minds engage.

Rich countries don't need as many children. We used to need kids to work in the fields as farm hands, to crawl on their bellies into coal mines. Well, kids are more like luxury objects now.

You know, throughout the world, throughout history, when countries get rich, they stop having kids.

Films about the English monarchy, they tend to have a lavishness, sumptuous imagery, it's all very posh and rich.

A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good - similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.

My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy.

Well, there's one thing to be said for money. It can make you rich.

In England the rich own the poor and the men own the women.

We're all going to face extreme stress in our lives, there's no one who is going to escape that. That's the one thing, rich or poor, I don't care who you are, you're going to lose.

Rich people making their houses bigger in order to make their lives happier wind up hurting their own marriages. There's a deep irony here. Do the couples perceive that irony?

If western culture is shown to be rich it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to "dissolve" harmful simplifications through inquiry and the critical mind.

The rich are becoming richer, and the gap between the rich and the poor is getting bigger.

Rich colors are typical of a rich nature.

Rich countries do civil wars with tweets and votes.

There is only now. And look! How rich we are in it!

God has given us the fascination and mystery of irrational numbers, as one aspect of a rich world

It is a hard thing for intellectuals to acknowledge benefits from their rich moral inferiors who never so intended it.

Since we shall love each other, I shall be great and you shall be rich.

In opening and conquering a country great and wild and rich - a country indeed not yet fully known or conquered - we have still to learn more about ourselves and each other.

We are giving away the country so a few very rich people can get richer.

I don't know how anyone could vote Republican. It's so obvious that their only interest is keeping the rich rich.

Every person who gets rich by creation opens a way for thousands to follow-and inspires them to do so.

No one ever got rich by studying poverty and thinking about poverty.

It is a natural law that like causes always produce like effects; and, therefore, any man or woman who learns to do things in this certain way will infallibly get rich.

We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.

Working with people who cause your stomach to churn seems much like marrying for money - probably a bad idea under any circumstances, but absolute madness if you are already rich.

You can't stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you're smarter than he is and he's doing these things and he's getting rich.

If you owe money, you can't pay them out. You just pay for everything, you do smart things, you eventually get very rich.