Rich quotes
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I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family.
-- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi -
I love nothing more than a good, rich, dark chocolate. It exhilarates. It satisfies.
-- Abigail Spencer -
You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.
-- Abu Bakr -
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Rich people don't pay taxes? Of course they pay taxes - they pay tons in taxes. They pay for everyone else who doesn't pay taxes.
-- Adam Carolla -
Like every other rich asshole, I have a cook and he's in my trailer making food all the time.
-- Adam Sandler -
It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.
-- Adam Smith -
No one is so poor that they cannot give, and no one is so rich that they cannot receive.
-- Adrienne Clarkson -
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I have a different idea of a universal. It is of a universal rich with all that is particular, rich with all the particulars there are, the deepening of each particular, the coexistence of them all.
-- Aime Cesaire -
Rich could play way better than Krupa.
-- Al Hirt -
Every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.
-- Alain de Botton -
You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.
-- Albert Camus -
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Poor and free rather than rich and enslaved. Of course, men want to be both rich and free, and this is what leads them at times to be poor and enslaved.
-- Albert Camus -
I never planned to be rich, frankly speaking. I was more interested in being free, and doing things. And money helps. But otherwise I was never that interested in it.
-- Alexander Lebedev -
Know what [drug] you're using, decide just why you're using it, and you can have a rich experience.
-- Alexander Shulgin -
Doom very evenly! Do not doom one doom to the rich; another to the poor! Nor doom one doom to your friend; another to your foe!
-- Alfred the Great -
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But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu.
-- Alison Bechdel -
He who desires nothing but God is rich and happy.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
How far, O rich, do you extend your senseless avarice? Do you intend to be the sole inhabitants of the earth? Why do you drive out the fellow sharers of nature, and claim it all for yourselves? The earth was made for all, rich and poor, in common. Why do you rich claim it as your exclusive right?
-- Ambrose -
Acquaintance: "A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
No man can become rich without himself enriching others
-- Andrew Carnegie -
No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
There's no question young drivers have far more accidents than older ones-but is it our aim to keep them off the roads? Or to allow only rich young people (who can afford the premiums) to drive?
-- Andrew Tobias -
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Stealing to eat ain’t criminal—stealing to be rich is.
-- Andrew Vachss -
Carlos Tevez is so rich that when he retires he'll never have to play football again
-- Andy Gray -
I'd like to be rich enough so I could throw soap away after the letters are worn off
-- Andy Rooney -
Most of us aren't that interested in getting rich- we just don't want to get poor.
-- Andy Rooney -
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In our minds, rich is always the other person, the other family. Rich is having more than you currently have. If that is the case, you can be rich and not feel it. You can be rich and not know it.
-- Andy Stanley -
No matter how rich or poor you might feel, right now is the time to be generous.
-- Andy Stanley -
Rich people have the potential to reach a point where they see money as the source of their safety and security.
-- Andy Stanley -
You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.
-- Ang Lee -
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We want to appeal to everyone and get rich quick. We want to be millionaires. I've got this plan to buy Tasmania you see...
-- Angus Young -
The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider.
-- Anna Lindh -
Some people wanted to get rich or famous, but my friends and I wanted to get real. We wanted to get deep. (Also, I suppose, we wanted to get laid.)
-- Anne Lamott -
Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.
-- Anni-Frid Lyngstad -
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When humanity measures wealth by love, truth and wisdom we will all be rich.
-- Anthony D. Williams -
When you are rich, people treat you with respect.
-- Anthony Horowitz -
History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events.
-- Antoine Rivarol -
I'm busier than ever and it's led to new opportunities. But I've never worried about being rich or famous - for me, it's all about the dancing.
-- Anton du Beke -
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Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those born rich could afford to be touched by it.
-- Anzia Yezierska -
If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
-- Apuleius -
I consider a good reputation is a great part of the human happiness. Some people, if they are very, very rich can permit themselves certain negligence to their reputations.
-- Aristotle Onassis -
Manila is a city of extremes. The poor are very poor and the rich very rich. A constant reminder to the rich that there is another side to life.
-- Arlene J. Chai -
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Society can transport money from rich to poor only in a leaky bucket
-- Arthur Melvin Okun -
The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
-- B. C. Forbes -
I don't invest in rich kids' businesses.
-- Barbara -
Sometime in the eighties, Americans had a new set of 'traditional values' installed. ... the poor and the middle class were shaken down, and their loose change funneled blithely upwards to the already overfed.
-- Barbara Ehrenreich -
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I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor.
-- Barbara Kruger -
We must be careful that the people who make $5,000 a year are not pitted against those that make $25,000 a year by those who make $900,000.
-- Barbara Mikulski -
It is very much easier for a rich man to invest and grow richer than for the poor man to begin investing at all. And this is also true of nations.
-- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth -
the distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century.
-- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth -
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Do not lose yourself in your everyday work and activities. Rather, lose yourself in God. When you are doing work, let your innermost heart be centered on Him. Live in His presence and abide in Him. Then your work will follow you into eternity, and you will reap a rich harvest.
-- Basilea Schlink -
Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people.
-- Beatrice Webb -
A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
-- Beatrice Wood -
Good Old Socialism ... Raping The Pocketbooks Of The Rich To Give To The Poor.
-- Beck -
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I cannot tell you ... how to be rich. But I can tell you how to feel rich, which is far better, let me tell you firsthand, than being rich. Be grateful... It is the only totally reliable get rich quick scheme.
-- Ben Stein -
Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
I would rather have it said, 'He lived usefully,' than, 'He died rich.'
-- Benjamin Franklin -
The poor have little; beggars, none; the rich, too much; enough, not one.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
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Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
A lot of so-called rich, according to this legislation, make $250,000. That's a lot of money, but it is not rich.
-- Bernard Goldberg -
The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.
-- Bertrand Russell -
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High school wasn't so bad though because, by then, I had worked out that there were far more nerdy kids and poor kids than there were rich, popular kids, so, at the very least, we had them outnumbered.
-- Beth Ditto -
Suffering is also good, it makes a person rich in charachter.
-- Betty Smith -
The difference between rich and poor", said Francie, "is that the poor do everything with thier own hands and the rich hire hands to do things.
-- Betty Smith -
I'm from where the real hustlers pile dough, the home of Rich Rich Porter, Azie, Alpo...
-- Big L -
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Today, the rich are the haves and the poor are the have-nots. Tomorrow, the rich will be the have-food and the poor will be the have-not food.
-- Bill Gaede -
A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.
-- Bill Griffith -
I was 12 years fittin to be a billionaire; I was 15 years old as a millionaire. Ive been rich since I was 14. My son has been a millionaire since he was 12, so thats just the life. Weve been playing with money since young.
-- Birdman -
Don't envy the harvest of the rich. Envy their planting.
-- Bo Sanchez -
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I've never known a lot of rich people. It's not my bag.
-- Bob Dole -
You've got to be rich to have a swing like that.
-- Bob Hope -
I am fairly rich. Money's very handy, let's face it.
-- Bob Hoskins -
You can tax the rich all you want. The problem is there aren't enough of the rich.
-- Bob Packwood -
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Get rich if you're looking for a woman, Get pious if you're looking for a wife
-- Boonaa Mohammed -
For me it's been very exciting to contribute to the public's understanding of how rich and wondrous science is.
-- Brian Greene -
The new social landscape is rich with emotion.
-- Brian Solis -
I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.
-- Brigitte Bardot -
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Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything.
-- Bruce Springsteen -
More than rich, more than famous, more than happy...I wanted to be great.
-- Bruce Springsteen -
It's horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you're not famous or rich, you're not acceptable.
-- Bruno Tonioli -
You ultimately judge the civility of a society not by how it treats the rich, the powerful, the protected and the highly esteemed, but by how it treats the poor, the disfavored and the disadvantaged....
-- Bryan Stevenson -
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The rich are only defeated when running for their lives.
-- C. L. R. James -
The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.
-- C. L. R. James -
The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.
-- C. S. Lewis -
The Sparks have always been committed to success and making the right moves to build upon their rich tradition in the WNBA.
-- Candace Parker -
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The more that you travel the more you get the sense of the word as a larger place and the more you get a sense of the variety of history and mythology. And when you know about these things you can incorporate them into what I feel is a more rich and more large tapestry of fantasy.
-- Cassandra Clare -
Money makes life easier but I don't want to be rich, not at all.
-- Cathy Freeman -
I'm a little lavish I must admit. But I'm not really concerned with money. Being rich is not my goal, being wealthy is.
-- Cee Lo Green -
I listened to my record and hear lots of influences. And it's very rich... it's got a wide spectrum.
-- Chantal Kreviazuk -
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I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.
-- Charles Bukowski -
That's the tragedy of the rich: They don't need anything.
-- Charles Coburn -
It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits..
-- Charles Jaffe -
It's not how much money you make that makes you rich, it's how you spend it.
-- Charles Jaffe -
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Oh England is a pleasant place for them that's rich and high, But England is a cruel place for such poor folks as I
-- Charles Kingsley -
I believe that cronyism is nothing more than welfare for the rich and powerful, and should be abolished.
-- Charles Koch -
If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich
-- Charles Wagner -
I don't like drum solos, to be honest with you, but if anybody ever told me he didn't like Buddy Rich I'd right away say go and see him, at least the once.
-- Charlie Watts -
