Best Rich Man Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 4

“The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn his books, and set him to work minding a machine or sweeping out a lavatory. 'Anything,' he thinks, 'any injustice, sooner than let that mob loose.' He does not see that since there is no difference between the mass of rich and poor, there is no question of setting the mob loose. The mob is in fact loose now, and--in the shape of rich men--is using its power to set up enormous treadmills of boredom, such as 'smart' hotels.”

Source: Down and Out in Paris and London

“I'm a rich man. To have everything you need is the definition of affluence.”

Men Needs Rich Definitions Rich Man Affluence

Book:The Essential Jack Reacher 11-Book Bundle: Persuader, The Enemy, One Shot, The Hard Way, Bad Luck and Trouble, Nothing to Lose, Gone Tomorrow, 61 Hours, Worth Dying For, The Affair, A Wanted Man

Source: The Essential Jack Reacher 11-Book Bundle: Persuader, The Enemy, One Shot, The Hard Way, Bad Luck and Trouble, Nothing to Lose, Gone Tomorrow, 61 Hours, Worth Dying For, The Affair, A Wanted Man

“Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many. The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions.”

Men Want Poor Rich Five Hundred Property Possession Envy Driven Inequality Rich Man Indignation Affluence

Book:An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.”

Men Should Reason Rich Kings Reason Why No Reason Rich Man

Book:Look at Me Now and Here I Am: Writings and Lectures, 1911-1945

Source: Look at Me Now and Here I Am: Writings and Lectures, 1911-1945

“A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.”

Men Earth Rich Faults Covered Surgeons Rich Man

Book:Cutting for Stone

Source: Cutting for Stone

“but what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger, how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man who breaks the law out of greed?”

Ifs Men Needs Should Years Law Poor Break Rich Crime Prison Greed Hunger Stealing Wealthy Rich Man Poor Man Gallows

Book:Snuff: (Discworld Novel 39)

Source: Snuff: (Discworld Novel 39)

“War so conspicuously benefits rich men and kills the poor ones.”

Men War Poor Rich Benefits Rich Man

Book:The Lacuna

Source: The Lacuna

“What all the ads and whorescopes seemed to imply was that if only you took proper care of your smells, your hair, your boobs, your eyelashes, your armpits, your crotch, your stars, your scars, your choice of Scotch in bars - you would meet a beautiful powerful, potent, and rich man who would satisfy every longing, fill every hole, make your heart skip a beat (or stand still), make you misty, and fly you to the moon (preferably on gossamer wings), where you would live totally satisfied forever.”

Ifs Men Heart Stills Care Beautiful Choices Stars Powerful Forever Rich Hair Moon Beats Longing Wings Smell Bars Holes Satisfied Ads Scar Rich Man Skip Scotch Eyelashes Misty Armpits

Author:Erica Jong

“In a room sit three great men, a king, a priest, and a rich man with his gold. Between them stands a sellsword, a little man of common birth and no great mind. Each of the great ones bids him slay the other two. ‘Do it,’ says the king, ‘for I am your lawful ruler.’ ‘Do it,’ says the priest, ‘for I command you in the names of the gods.’ ‘Do it,’ says the rich man, ‘and all this gold shall be yours.’ So tell me—who lives and who dies?”

Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows

“When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’.”

Men Giving Rich Wise Air Youth Theatre Rich Man

Book:The Golden Sayings of Epictetus In Plain and Simple English (Translated)

Source: The Golden Sayings of Epictetus In Plain and Simple English (Translated)

“Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.”

Men Dream Dies Poor Rich Rich Man Poor Man

Book:The Many Deaths of the Black Company

Source: The Many Deaths of the Black Company

“Good health, longevity, happiness, a loving family, self-reliance, fine friends … if you [have] five, you’re a rich man….”

Ifs Men Self Rich Five Fine Longevity Self Reliance Reliance Good Health Rich Man Loving Family

Book:The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy

Source: The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy

“I was asked once,'your a smart man,why arnt you rich?I replied 'your a rich man,why arnt you smart?”

Men Rich Smart Rich Man Smart Man

Author:Jacque Fresco

“The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.”

Ifs Men Way Values Poor Rich Health Exercise Healthy Finance Health Care Rich Man Abstinence

Book:The Works of Sir William Temple, Bart. ...: Observations upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands. Miscellanea. Memoirs. The third part. From the peace concluded 1679, to the time of the author's retirement from publick business. Memoirs ... from ... 1672, to 1679

Source: The Works of Sir William Temple, Bart. ...: Observations upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands. Miscellanea. Memoirs. The third part. From the peace concluded 1679, to the time of the author's retirement from publick business. Memoirs ... from ... 1672, to 1679

“There are many kinds of richness, and the man who is rich because of money is the lowest as far as the categories of richness are concerned. Let me say it in this way: the man of wealth is the poorest rich man. Looked at from the side of the poor, he is the richest poor man. Looked at from the side of a creative artist, of a dancer, of a musician, of a scientist, he is the poorest rich man. And as far as the world of ultimate awakening is concerned he cannot even be called rich.”

Source: The World Beyond Time

“I have a religion-but you will call it blasphemy. It is that there is a God for the rich man but none for the poor.....Perhaps your religion will sustain you,will feed you-I place no dependence in mine. Our religions are alike, though, in one respect-neither can make a man happy when he is out of luck.”

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

“Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.”

Men Wells Law Wealth Chance Poverty Rich Goes On Strive Rich Man

Book:Autobiographies III: Rose and Crown and Sunset and Evening Star

Source: Autobiographies III: Rose and Crown and Sunset and Evening Star

“The rich man is not one who is in possession of much, but one who gives much.”

Men Giving Wealth Rich Possession Rich Man

Book:The Homilies of S. John Chrysostom on the Statues: Or, To the People of Antioch

Source: The Homilies of S. John Chrysostom on the Statues: Or, To the People of Antioch

“All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.”

Men Hard Enough Poor Rich Economic Pity Torn Pathetic Hearted Dilemma Rich Man Poor Man Stout

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Seek the simplest in all things, in food, clothing, without being ashamed of poverty. For a great part of the world lives in poverty. Do not say, "I am the son of a rich man. It is shameful for me to be in poverty." Christ, your Heavenly Father, Who gave birth to you in the baptistery, is not in worldly riches. Rather he walked in poverty and had nowhere to lay His head.”

“Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.”

Men Law Culture Justice Poor Rich Diversity Social Justice Rule Of Law Grind Rich Man

Author:Oliver Goldsmith

“The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt.”

Men Giving Doe Poor Pay Rich Saint Debt Serving Others Rich Man Alms Almsgiving

Author:Ambrose

“My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me; you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. A few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man, and now the poorest of all.”

Source: The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, L834-l872

“A rich man's joke is always funny.”

Men Inspiration Rich Jokes Cute Rich Man Money Talks

Author:T. E. Brown

“The tenets of [the Christian life] seem paradoxes to carnal men; as first, that a Christian is the only freeman, and other men are slaves; that he is the only rich man, though never so poor in the world; that he is the only beautiful man, though outwardly never so deformed; that he is the only happy man in the midst of all his miseries.”

Men World Firsts Seems Christian Beautiful Poor Rich Blessing Misery Slave Christian Life Midst Paradox Rich Man Chastisement Freeman Happy Man

Author:Richard Sibbes

“There is no get-rich-quick scheme equal to a poor girl marrying a rich man.”

Men Girl Wealth Poor Rich Equal Schemes Get Rich Rich Man Marrying Get Rich Quick

Author:E. W. Howe

“The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality. Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.”

Source: Bureaucracy

“The rich man, when contributing to a permanent plan for the education of the poor, ought to reflect that he is providing for that of his own descendants; and the poor man who concurs in a provision for those who are not poor that at no distant day it may be enjoyed by descendants from himself. It does not require a long life to witness these vicissitudes of fortune.”

Source: The forging of American federalism: selected writings of James Madison

“The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.”

Men Rich Fashion Fool Elegant Rich Man

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.”

Ifs Men Would Be Poor Deals Rich Gratitude Granted Generosity Rich Man Poor Man

Book:A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published

Source: A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published

“Colombe Josse is the older Jesse daughter. Colombe Jesse is also a sort of tall blonde leek who dresses like a penniless Bohemian. If there is one thing I despise, it is the perverse affectation of rich people who go around dressing as if they were poor, in second-hand clothes, ill-fitting gray bonnets, socks full of holes, and flowered shirts under threadbare sweaters. Not only is it ugly, it is also insulting: nothing is more despicable than a rich man's scorn for a poor man's longing.”