Quotes About Rich

Love is a pie and I am lucky enough to have almost every flavor in mine.

Let him be rich and weary, that at least,If goodness lead him not, yet wearinessMay toss him to my breast.

There are two extremes to be avoided, one is the disposition of the rich to aggrandize themselves at the expense of the poor. . . . The other is . . . the anxiety of poor people to get possessions of the accumulations of the rich, and to have them divided among them, and a general leveling take place.

We speak in (rich) monotones. Our poetry is haunted by the music it has left behind. Orpheus shrinks to a poet when he looks back, with the impatience of reason, on a music stronger than death.

and yes, the rich are never crazy, they're eccentric),

In reality, Hemingway didn't appeal to plumbers or roofers who read books; he was a rich man's writer, with the vocabulary and hunting instinct of the blue-collar workingman. But Hemingway had the unfailing genius of an inventor, and each book he wrote was new, sparkling new, something that hadn't been seen in American prose, something that merged common speech with uncommon clarity, something that verged on poetry. 

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

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

Those in the United States who, by and large, have the best medical care and advice readily available to them at the least expense are the families of the specialists in internal medicine. These families use less medicine and undergo less surgery on the whole than any other group, rich or poor.

The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful.

The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

Gee, Vernon, now you're scaring me. Not the union rep. She gave a deliberate shudder. You won't be so smart when you're hit with a lawsuit, and I start bleeding that rich husband you hooked. My God, Peabody, a lawsuit. I feel faint. Don't worry, Lieutenant, I'll catch you.

since I have my heart's desire, I suppose I'm rich as well.

The matched pair of avant-garde rich were inspecting a work of art that was made up of shredded bedsheets draped over a taxidermied cow standing with each hoof in a toilet.

Shearing began to play his chords; they rolled out of the piano in great rich showers

Twitter was like a poem. It was rich, real and spontaneous. It really fit my style. In a year and a half, I tweeted 60,000 tweets, over 100,000 words. I spent a minimum eight hours a day on it, sometimes 24 hours.

Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.

If we are going to spend the bulk of our public dollars on the affluent - at least when it comes to housing - we should own up to that decision and stop repeating the canard about this rich country being unable to afford more.

Because TED is for, and by, unbelievably rich people, they tiptoe around questions of the justness of a society that rewards TED attendees so much for what usually amounts to a series of lucky breaks.

You know, America has profoundly shaped me, and I have two American children and unbelievably rich friendships so it will always be a source of joy and good memories.

When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

The poor long for riches, the rich long for heaven, but the wise long for a state of tranquility.