Rich Quotes - page 4

I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice. (Edward Moore)
Beauty was the promise of happiness, not happiness itself; and the anticipated world was often more rich than anything real. View quote
Kim Stanley Robinson
. . . the rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families . . . View quote
George Eliot
The history of science is rich in the example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another. View quote
Robert Oppenheimer
If you aren't rich you should always look useful. View quote
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor. View quote
Vivienne Westwood
That's the story of my life rich or poor and mostly poor and truly poor. View quote
Jack Kerouac
If you want to steal, steal a little in a nice way. But if you steal too much to become rich overnight, you'll be caught. View quote
Mobutu Sésé Seko
Let some people get rich first. View quote
Deng Xiaoping
The motivation for war is simple. The U. S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U. S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich. View quote
Michael Moore
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. (G. K. Chesterton)
The rich are the scum of the earth in every country. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments. View quote
Samuel Johnson
I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth. View quote
Henry Miller
And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human. View quote
William Gibson
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing. View quote
Neil Gaiman
Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain. View quote
John Dryden
Drugs are marvelous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape? View quote
Geraldine Chaplin
A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. (Sholem Aleichem)
Money is the source of the greatest vice, & that Nation which is most rich, is most wicked. View quote
Frances Burney
Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water. View quote
Gwendolyn Brooks
I don't want to get rich - just live good. View quote
Patsy Cline