Rich Quotes - page 12

A high proportion of the population enjoys many of the ‘luxuries' which until recently were considered the prerogative of the rich; and the ordinary worker lives at what even two decades ago would have been considered in Britain a middle-class standard of life. (Anthony Crosland)

The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.

Oscar Wilde

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

Oscar Wilde

Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.

Lucy Parsons

Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or a knife, and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of the rich and stab or shoot the owners as they come out. Let us kill them without mercy, and let it be a war of extermination.

Lucy Parsons

I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.

Don Johnson

All the power's in the hands of people rich enough to buy it.

Joe Strummer

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alan Alda

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

Johnny Carson

Being rich is an obstacle to loving. When you are rich, you want to continue to be rich, and so you end up devoting all your time, all your energy, in your daily life to stay rich.

Nhat Hanh

Rich people acquire assets. The poor and middle class acquire liabilities that they think are assets. (Robert Kiyosaki)

If you want to be rich, you need to be financially literate.

Robert Kiyosaki

My philosophy of life is that the meek shall inherit nothing but debasement, frustration and ignoble deaths; that there is security in personal strength; that you can fight City Hall and win; that any action is better than no action, even if it's the wrong action; that you never reach glory or self-fulfillment unless you're willing to risk everything, dare anything, put yourself dead on the line every time; and that once one becomes strong or rich or potent or powerful it is the responsibility of the strong to help the weak become strong.

Harlan Ellison

The record company's worst fear is that you'll fall in love or get rich.

Maynard James Keenan

We might be on the brink of an apocalypse if, instead of poor people with suicide bombs killing middle class guys, middle-class people with suicide bombs started killing rich guys.

Bruce Sterling

Civil rights for all Americans, black, white, red, yellow, the rich, poor, young, old, gay, straight, et cetera, is not a liberal or a conservative value. It's an American value that I would think that we pretty much all agree on.

Jerry Falwell

Rich with the spoils of Nature.

Thomas Browne

And thou my minde aspire to higher things; Grow rich in that which never taketh rust.

Philip Sidney

From toil he wins his spirits light, From busy day the peaceful night; Rich, from the very want of wealth, In heaven's best treasures, peace and health.

Thomas Gray

But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.

Thomas Gray

Give what Thou canst, without Thee we are poor;
And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away. (William Cowper)

He that holds fast the golden mean,And lives contently betweenThe little and the great,Feels not the wants that pinch the poor,Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door.

William Cowper

The Chief Justice was rich, quiet, and infamous.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.

Walter Lippmann

Mathematics catalogues everything that is not self-contradictory; within that vast inventory, physics is an island of structures rich enough to contain their own beholders.

Greg Egan

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