The Rich Quotes

Rich people march on Washington every day.

We were poor when I was young but the difference was that the government didn't come around telling you you were poor.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it.

We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry.

Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings that fear their subjects treachery?

It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

A rich man is one who isn't afraid to ask the salesperson to show him something cheaper.

The rich invest their money and spend what is left; the poor spend their money and invest what is left.

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

What else is there for the rich to do, If not to relieve the poor of their misery?

And though you should live in a palace of gold, or sleep in a dried up ditch, You could never be as poor as the fairies are, and never as rich.

Travel is rich with learning opportunities, and the ultimate sourvenir is a broader perspective.

To cut 1930s jobless, FDR taxed corps and rich. Govt used money to hire many millions. Worked then; would now again. Why no debate on that?

America has become the most unequal society among advanced countries, and rich people are now free to spend as much money on political campaigns as they wish.

We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy.

When fewer workers have unions, the standard of living falls for everyone and the gap between the rich and poor grows.

To be rich in friends is to be poor in nothing

Conservatives say if you don't give the rich more money, they will lose their incentive to invest. As for the poor, they tell us they've lost all incentive because we've given them too much money.

The truth about it is, whether we is rich or poor or something in between, this earth ain't no final restin place. So in a way, we is all homeless - just workin our way toward home.

Drugs are marvelous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape?

Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that's what you're left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich.

I came from a dirt farm, now I'm filthy rich.

When the rich [and politically powerful] make war, it's the poor [and politically weak] who die.

Open the doors to all. Let the children of the rich and the poor take their seats together and know of no distinction save that of industry, good conduct, and intellect.

One is not rich by what one owns, but more by what one is able to do without with dignity.

When women live rich, in every sense of the word - financially, emotionally, physically, and spiritually - everyone wins: you win, your family wins, your community wins, and the world wins.

O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot inside to think of good hours to come.

The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.

Far from being a “luxury for the rich,” organic farming may turn out to be a necessity not just for the poor, but for everyone.

I love nothing more than a good, rich, dark chocolate. It exhilarates. It satisfies.

If economists were good at business, they would be rich men instead of advisers to rich men.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

If a group of people - leaders - can convince a group of folk who barely have a pot to piss in that the rich shouldn't be taxed-- THAT is leadership!

I want to help people with depression understand that there is hope, so that they can get the help they need to live rich, fulfilling lives.

The rich. You know why they're so odd? Because they can afford to be.

Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time.

Make your top managers rich and they will make you rich.

Poetry is priceless.... a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you're quite poor.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

The blues comes right back to a person's feelings, to his daily activities in life. But rich people don't know nothing about the blues, please believe me.

If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That's how rich we are.

The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn't simple.

Chess is a game sufficiently rich in meaning that it is easily capable of containing elements of both tragedy and comedy.

I think truth is a layered phenomenon. There are many truths that accumulate and build up. I am trying to peel back and explore these rich layers of truth. All truths are difficult to reach.

Unlike money, hope is all: for the rich as well as for the poor.

How would we feel if you could pay extra to smoke on airplanes? When we decide something is a bad idea in general for society, we don't want the rich to be able to buy their way out of it.

A single thought can revolutionize your life as it did mine. A single thought can make you rich or it can land you in prison for the rest of your life.

Soccer is a great game, and the rich variety of styles and passions that come with being truly global makes the World Cup a nonpareil event in the universe of competitive sport.

Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.