Rich Quotes

What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve his farm without spreading comfort and well-being around him. Rich and abundant crops, a numerous population and a prosperous countryside are the rewards for his efforts.

As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted.

It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.

A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers.

None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.

These will be fabulous investments and will make millions of more people rich.

Jehovah God is truly rich far beyond the imagination of humankind.

My visit this autumn is an opportunity to continue that rich tradition of visits between Canterbury and Rome.

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

As a Republican, I am proud of my party's rich legacy of conservation.

You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any rich house and it's some weird coloured embossed stuff.

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

If you are a rich person straining every sinew to keep every last pound in your pocket, there comes a point when you realize you are not just escaping the clutches of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. You are passing a greater burden on to people poorer than yourself, and depriving even poorer people of your support.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

Clinton's pardoning of Marc Rich was off-the-wall.

A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered.

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.

God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.

Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think you can balance it only on the wallets of the rich.

The slogan of the moderate Republican Party is this: we are rich, and we are not going to take it any more.

I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor.

Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

Rich means you have to stay there to maintain it.