Rich Quotes

Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.

The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South.

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

The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South.

Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends.

I've never known a lot of rich people. It's not my bag.

I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.

Mine has been a concern for the people, a concern to maintain stability, a concern to get people working together racially, ethnically, rich and poor - all segments of the city.

To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.

The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich.

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

I am a proud product of Irish golf and the Golfing Union of Ireland and am hugely honoured to have come from very rich Irish sporting roots... I am also a proud Ulsterman who grew up in Northern Ireland. That is my background and always will be.

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

The tax code is not the only area where the administration is helping the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It has spent $155 billion for an unnecessary war driven by fear.

Often for hors d'oeuvres, I serve room temperature vegetables, something like that, so that the main course might be quite rich but the first course has balanced it out.

I am rich from the bequests other gifted people have seen fit to leave to me.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

If you're lucky enough to be raised in a rich family, good. But learn how to respect that luck. It's not a given, you know? It's not like, 'Well, it's normal'. No, it's not normal. It's lucky.

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

Your internal dialogue has got to be different from what you say. And, you know, in film, hopefully that registers and speaks volumes. It's always the unspoken word and what's happening behind someone's eyes that makes it so rich.

Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.

In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.

I love making money, but you can't live your life waiting to get rich in a job that no longer feeds you artistically.

I'm a parent, especially when you've had the intense parenting the way I had. It's all in the bank. It's all in the great experience bank. Those are your secrets. That's the stuff that makes your work rich, that's what you dip into.

The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other. It helped me in the future where I got to play in 2 cities that were rich in tradition.

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.

Schools that are to cater for the whole population must offer courses that are as rich and varied as are the needs and abilities of the children who enter them.

I think actors are divided into two groups: one that wants to be an actor to become famous and rich, and the other that wants to be an actor because they have to be. I'm more in the second group.