Rich Quotes
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Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.
Jane Austen
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The enjoyment of the choicest natural scenes in the country and the means of recreation connected with them is thus a monopoly, in a very peculiar manner, of a very few very rich people. The great mass of society, including those to whom it would be of the greatest benefit, is excluded from it. In the nature of the case private parks can never be used by the mass of the people in any country nor by any considerable number even of the rich, except by the favor of a few, and in dependence on them.
Frederick Law Olmsted
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With a tone so rich, I would never be afraid of the dark. Steinway is the only and the best!
Harry Connick, Jr.
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I was surprised to learn that doing household chores qualifies as romantic for most of you women. That's exactly why you should never hire a butler if you strike it rich - the minute that Jeeves starts unloading the dishwasher without being asked, your wife is going to start humping his leg.
Scott Adams
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
Oliver Goldsmith
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We have a rich and vibrant partner ecosystem with several thousand formal business partners. Some of them are very large companies that we collaborate with in many ways.
Jack Dangermond
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Modi may be rich in politics but is poor at heart.
Kapil Sibal
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There must be Religion. Otherwise the poor would murder the rich.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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To know you have enough is to be rich.
Lao Tzu
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If thou art rich, thou art poor; for, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey, and death unloads thee.
William Shakespeare
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We're not so poor that we have to spend our wilderness or so rich that we can afford to.
Newton B. Drury
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Rich and famous is not bad, but poor and famous sucks.
Paul Hogan
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Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people.
Carol Moseley Braun
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The rich think this land is theirs though they have never earned the right to call it theirs.
Maaza Mengiste
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If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.
Oscar Wilde
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In the past, humans hesitated when they took lives, even non-human lives. But society had changed, and they no longer felt that way. As humans grew stronger, I think that we became quite arrogant, losing the sorrow of 'we have no other choice.' I think that in the essence of human civilization, we have the desire to become rich without limit, by taking the lives of other creatures.
Hayao Miyazaki
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They say you never grow poor taking profits. No, you don't. But neither do you grow rich taking a four-point profit in a bull market. Where I should have made twenty thousand dollars I made two thousand. That was what conservatism did for me.
Jesse Livermore
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Actually, the problem in the world is that there are too many rich people.
Paul R. Ehrlich
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Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How'd they get so rich? Because they're free.
P. J. O'Rourke
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My life is rich because I have those kinds of people in my life.
Alicia Keys
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He who desires nothing but God is rich and happy.
Alphonsus Liguori
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Class warfare or soaking the so-called rich may make for good populist demagoguery and serve the political ends of the governing masterminds, but it does nothing to solve the grave realities of the federal government's insatiable appetite for spending and its inability to reform itself.
Mark Levin
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The rich survive and everyone else gets ready to work 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 jobs and what do you get? Blade Runner. Welcome to your science fiction. Your 21st century. I think that's where it goes. The rich get richer and everyone else... the middle class kind of starts dropping lower and lower.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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Pittsburgh has this rich industrial past, when it was the heart of the U.S. steel industry, and it burned out as the industry burned out and moved elsewhere.
Curtis Hanson