Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

If we are so rich, why aren't we happy?

Pearl S. Buck

The rich are always afraid.

Paula McLain

The very rich only admire themselves

Peter Kropotkin

Poverty, the existence of the poor, was the first cause of riches.

John Dryden

Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.

John Lawson

The Inhabitants of Carolina, thro' the Richness of the Soil, live an easy and pleasant Life.

It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

The inspired Scriptures make the clear distinction between false and true riches and make plain the reason why happiness is gained and fully enjoyed only by those who find true riches.

Leonard Cohen

The poor stay poor, the rich get rich / Thats how it goes / Everybody knows.

Julie Newmar

I'm just rich. I own businesses and I love it.

Patrick Carney

[Justin Bieber]'s rich, right? Grammys are for music and not money. He's making a lot of money. He should be happy with that.

John Piper

The great danger of riches is that our affections will be carried away from God to His gifts.

Martin Luther

Not only the adoration of images is idolatry, but also trust in one's own righteousness, works and merits, and putting confidence in riches and power. As the latter is the commonest, so it also is the most noxious.

Mary Wortley Montagu

'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

Juan Williams

Voting is a Constitutional right. Absent any evidence of fraud, all Americans have a protected right to vote, be they rich or poor, black, Hispanic or white, people who live in a big city or in remote rural areas.

Noam Chomsky

All public resources go to the rich. The poor, if they can survive in the labor market, fine. Otherwise, they die. That's economics in a nutshell.

Michael Cunningham

I just don't feel much interested in the lifestyles of the rich and famous.

Michael Crichton

The fact that the patients were complex human beings with a rich life beyond the hospital never really sank into the consciousness of the residents. Because they had no rich lives beyond the hospital, they assumed no one else did, either. In the end, what they lacked was not medical knowledge but ordinary life experience.

Michel de Montaigne

Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them; and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.

Naomi Klein

Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

The possessions of the rich are stolen property.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Morals today are corrupted by our worship of riches.

Kid Rock

I don't steal things. I'm rich.

Margaret Thatcher

There are too few rich and too few profits.

Leonardo da Vinci

That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches.

Letitia Baldrige

There is no substitute for the riches gained on a lifetime basis by the young American who studies or works abroad.

Lainie Kazan

I have a rich, full, textured life.

Patsy Cline

I don''t wanna be rich, just live good.

Patsy Cline

I don't wanna get rich - just live good.

At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay.

Rainer Maria Rilke

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

Sojourner Truth

The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.

John Milton

Therefore, if at great things thou wouldst arrive, Get riches first, get wealth.