Quotes About Rich

In an oligarchy it is necessary to take great care of the poor, and allot them public employments which are gainful; and, if any of the rich insult them, to let their punishment be severer than if they insulted one of their own rank;

It is also an error in democracies for the demagogues to endeavour to make the common people superior to the laws; and thus by setting them at variance with the rich, dividing one city into two; whereas they ought rather to speak in favour of the rich.

My sympathies and my love went out to her, even as my hand had in the garden. I felt that years of the conventionalities of life could not teach me to know her sweet, brave nature as had this one day of strange experiences. Yet there were two thoughts which sealed the words of affection upon my lips. She was weak and helpless, shaken in mind and nerve. It was to take her at a disadvantage to obtrude love upon her at such a time. Worst still, she was rich.

But they must be sorry folk to bow down to the rich in such a fashion, said big John. I am but a poor commoner of England myself, and yet I know something of charters, liberties franchises, usages, privileges, customs, and the like. If these be broken, then all men know that it is time to buy arrow-heads. Aye

It shows him to be a very wealthy man. How did he acquire wealth? He is unmarried. His younger brother is a station master in the west of England. His chair is worth seven hundred a year.

God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of His with the certainty of experience. I have touched it.

Most of them had, among all the factors in the campaign, noticed only what they regarded as Windrip's humor, and three planks in his platform: Five, which promised to increase taxes on the rich; Ten, which condemned the Negroes—since nothing so elevates a dispossessed farmer or a factory worker on relief as to have some race, any race, on which he can look down; and

Many bad men are rich, many good men are poor; but we shall not exchange wealth for honour, for money flits from man to man but honour abides forever.

Pride breeds the tyrant violent pride, gorging, crammed to bursting with all that is overripe and rich with ruin— clawing up to the heights, headlong pride

Poverty's simplicity has an inexpensive beauty rooted in it, which the rich can never afford to buy

Other than the promise of life after death, nothing consoles the poor better than the fact that rich people are also subject to death.

Life… For some it is battle for others its dance...For rich it is party for poor it is chance!

Listen to the insults being flung around in the political controversies of the present day—the thieving rich, the shiftless poor, and the rest of it—and notice how many of them amount to claims that wealth that ought to belong to one group of people is being unfairly held by another.

IDENTITY CLUE 4: A NATION OF WEALTH AND LUXURY Besides the foregoing prophecies which reveal the Daughter of Babylon will be a nation of great wealth, these verses further address the issue of great national wealth: "…because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass…" (Jeremiah 50:12(b)). "…a sword is upon her treasures…" (Jeremiah 50:37(b)) "You who…are rich in treasures…" (Jeremiah 51:13(a)).

IDENTITY CLUE 6: YOU WHO LIVE ON MANY WATERS Jeremiah 51:13 provides another critical clue of the identity of the Daughter of Babylon: "You who live by many waters and are rich in treasures, your end has come, the time for you to be cut off." Ancient Babylon, a quick review of a map will confirm, did not live by many waters, just the River Euphrates.

Jeremiah 51:13 provides another critical clue of the identity of the Daughter of Babylon: "You who live by many waters and are rich in treasures, your end has come, the time for you to be cut off." Ancient Babylon, a quick review of a map will confirm, did not live by many waters, just the River Euphrates.

If it all ended on our shores that would be serious enough, indeed, as our idol worship of famous, rich actors and sports figures is not a sign of an emotionally healthy, let alone morally strong, nation.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and poor: there is an idle class - weak, wicked, and miserable - among both rich and poor.

W]hat I like best is staying home and reading. Being rich is not about how many homes you own. It's the freedom to pick up any book you want without looking at the price and wondering whether you can afford it.

Phoebe stared into his blue eyes. "What would you do if you ran away from a wedding in a car that didn't belong to you and discovered a body in the trunk about the time a sheriff's deputy rolled up behind you?" She flung her hand in the air, and assumed a high-pitched, sarcastic tone. "Hi, I'm a rich man's daughter with a dead man in my trunk. Could you help me get him out so I can be on my merry way?

It was a nice voice, smooth and deep as double chocolate ice cream.

Discounters gave the common man and woman the opportunity to eschew the cobbler and the darning needle, to break in a brand-new pair of shoes or socks when their toes poked through the old ones. Discounters made ordinary folks feel rich by putting a wide selection of goods within easy reach of all but the most meager budgets. Someone had to pay, of course, but that someone need not be the customer.

Our Government cannot buy for minor clerks the best ability of the nation in the cheap currency of pure honour, and no Government is rich enough to buy very much of it in money.