Rich Quotes

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up Social Security, fortify our defense, provide a quality public education and offer economic assistance to rural areas.

The commercial broadcasters have tremendous influence in Washington, D.C., for a couple of reasons. First, they're extremely rich and they have lots of money and they have had for a long time, so they can give money to politicians, which gets their attention.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Money makes life easier but I don't want to be rich, not at all.

We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy.

A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me.

Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while each new earthquake, famine or tidal wave can attract 1,000 aid organisations, from the United Nations Children's Fund and Oxfam to the 'Jesus Brigades' of the American south and other charitable adventurers.

Contrary to what most people think, there is a Rich Daley under Mayor Daley.

Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation.

I wanted to be a rich, famous rock-and-roll star in that order.

India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.

Israel being condemned by the EU, which 66 years ago watched with glee as its Jews were being mass murdered. That is pretty rich.

The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.

A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.

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.