Rich Quotes

Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

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.

It is a matter of simple knowledge that the human likes to see the struggle between the good and the bad, the rich and the poor, the successful and the unsuccessful.

It is not that these countries, so rich in species, do not by a strange chance possess the aboriginal stocks of any useful plants, but that the native plants have not been improved by continued selection up to a standard of perfection comparable with that given to the plants in countries anciently civilised.

One destitute of wealth is not destitute, he is indeed rich, but the man devoid of learning is destitute in every way.

The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society.

Save your wealth against future calamity. Do not say, "what fear has a rich man of calamity?" Wealth sometimes vanishes away and large accumulations perish.

The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones.

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.

While we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else.

We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

Well, Steve [Jobs]... I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbour named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.

In order to deal with all the medical cost demands and other challenges in the U.S., as we look to raise that revenue, the rich will have to pay slightly more. That's quite clear.