Rich Quotes

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

Listen friends, you have to face the truth: You are never going to be rich... The system is rigged in favor of the few, and your name is not among them, not now and not ever.

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

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

And those are the Rich, who transmit what they have to their Posterity; whereby particular Families become rich; and of such are compounded Cities, Countries, Nations, etc.

A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.

Sure, my childhood was unusual. All these eccentric, wild people frequented our home: rock stars, drag queens, models, bikers, freaks. But I was not this little rich girl. My mom and I lived in an apartment.

He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.

You've got to be rich to have a swing like that.

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

My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'.

It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich, poor.

We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.

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.

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

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

But only 'rich' people by definition have the 'extra' money to buy things and invest to create economic growth. Do we really want to tax that 'extra' money away - and give it to the government to spend? Does that make any economic sense outside of politics and our emotional desire to make everyone suffer equally through these tough times?

I hear all this, you know, 'Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever.' No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own - nobody.

You have to be very rich to afford Labour, with 66 tax rises since they came in power.

I love general history. That's all I read really. I don't read novels, I read history. I love it. I live in an area that's really rich in Civil War history. I live in Kentucky on a farm. A lot of revolution, a lot of military history I love.

It's always written that my father was a rich, conservative John Bircher. That is untrue. He was not rich. He was not a John Bircher.

We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to be beautiful and rich is very important - just as in the Middle Ages, people were surrounded by images of religious piety.

Such is the nature of comic strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. Typically, the end result is lazy, rich cartoonists.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

In most places that are rich in guitar culture, everyone uses their fingers, like in Spain or Africa. In Japan there are string instruments played that way. It is not until you get in the States that you find people using picks.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

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.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.

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.