Rich Quotes

Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets.

I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.

The people I want are very famous and very rich, and all I can offer them is a bit of exposure on TV and a bit of cash, so it's a miracle we get any guests at all. But we have been very lucky.

This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.

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.

No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.

A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative.

Anne is very forgiving. She doesn't care about money, being rich, or clothes. We never argued about finances.

If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.

True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

You know, you cut taxes for the rich sometimes and it sits in a bank account. You cut taxes for the middle class, they will spend the money.

People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.

When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.

We partied with the royal rich people, and we felt like rock stars. We drank all the whiskey in the place.

Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

I think it's time to do clean-up for a generation. I believe this is one of the movies that hits home for all colors and all races. Everybody I talk to, black or white, suburban, rich or poor, can relate to rejection, can relate to not having a father or a mother.

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.

I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics.

Money doesn't make the man. Some people have money, and some people are rich.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting.

There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for titles, except that of the titled for riches.

Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.

I have a problem with too much money. I can't reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.

Now I have children of my own. They ask their mother what will I be. Will I be handsome, will I be rich?

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.