Rich Quotes - page 4

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.

Joseph Stalin

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

Honoré de Balzac

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich man to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

Sean O`Casey

No one is ever too old, too rich, too poor, to pray.

Loretta Young

Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale, but surely, surely, a great rich country like ours will see that those who are dependent on us are properly provided for.

Robert Falcon Scott

...all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

William Henry Harrison

I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

Edward Moore

Beauty was the promise of happiness, not happiness itself; and the anticipated world was often more rich than anything real.

Kim Stanley Robinson

. . . the rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families . . . (George Eliot)

The history of science is rich in the example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.

Robert Oppenheimer

If you aren't rich you should always look useful.

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.

Vivienne Westwood

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

Jack Kerouac

If you want to steal, steal a little in a nice way. But if you steal too much to become rich overnight, you'll be caught.

Mobutu Sésé Seko

Let some people get rich first.

Deng Xiaoping

The motivation for war is simple. The U. S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U. S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich.

Michael Moore

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

G. K. Chesterton

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

G. K. Chesterton

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments. (Samuel Johnson)

I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.

Henry Miller

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

William Gibson

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

George Bernard Shaw

I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.

Neil Gaiman

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