Rich Quotes

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.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.

And now let me address all of you, high and low, rich and poor, one with another, to accept of mercy and grace while it is offered to you; Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation; and will you not accept it, now it is offered unto you?

Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.

I was at a U2 concert and someone asked me if my hair color was real... I thought to myself, if I had $1 for every time someone asked me this, I would be very rich.

I personally think you can have a really rich and full life with no abs. Abs are for wimps.

Well, the taxes that everyone else is paying are supporting lots of programs that were in place prior to Obama's new spending. So new spending has too be paid for by new taxes, or by eliminating existing tax breaks. And Obama wants that burden to be borne exclusively by the rich.

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be 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.

China has always maintained that all countries, big or small, rich or poor, strong or weak, are equal members of the international community and they should stand and speak in the world as such.

I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

He will bring us all, rich and poor, white and black, to his judgment seat.

People think, 'She's a model. She must have such an attitude. She must be so stuck up.' But I'm normal. I cry. I'm not rich. I drive a 1987 Chevrolet Celebrity.

But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money. It was the fault of the rich, it seemed, but just how he did not know.

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

While President Bush's tax give-aways for the rich are pushing us further into debt, he compensates by increasing the out-of-pocket costs to our veterans.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

Being an American is such a rich environment, because there's so many people from other countries and cultures, and through that you're able to see other people's experiences.

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.