Rich Man Quotes - Page 7

• Whether we call ourselves communists or capitalists, Hindus or Buddhists, Moslems or Christians, whether we are blind, lame, well or happy, this earth is ours...not somebody else's...it is not only the rich man's earth, but our earth...yours and mine.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Christian, Buddhist, Men

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• 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.

  Gennadius of Constantinople

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• 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.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Rich, Pity

  Utopia of Usurers, and Other Essays "The Utopia of Usurers" (1917)

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• We commonly say that the rich man can speak the truth, can afford honesty, can afford independence of opinion and action;--and that is the theory of nobility. But it is the rich man in a true sense, that is to say, not the man of large income and large expenditure, but solely the man whose outlay is less than his income and is steadily kept so.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Honesty, Men, Independence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.675, Modern Library

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• Gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. Great kings, emperors, generals, admirals and philosophers have all died of gout.

  Thomas Sydenham

  Wise, Kings, Simple

  Thomas Sydenham, Robert Gordon Latham (1850). “The works of Thomas Sydenham, M.D.”, p.129

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• The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones.

  Chanakya

  Beautiful, Wisdom, Men

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• I feel that I am writing out of a full life. I am a rich man, rich in men known, in adventures had. I am rich with living.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Money, Writing, Adventure

  Sherwood Anderson (1969). “Sherwood Anderson's memoirs: a critical edition”

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• There are those who say that children make a rich man poor. No, they have it backward. Children make a poor man rich. A rich man can't take his riches to heaven, but I'm taking my children

  Adrian Rogers

  Children, Men, Heaven

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• It is not the rich man you should properly call happy,
  but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods,
  to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death,
  and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.

  Horace

  Men, Blessing, Poverty

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• Show the world that your God is worth ten thousand worlds to you. Show rich men how rich you are in your poverty when the Lord God is your helper. Show the strong man how strong you are in your weakness when underneath you are the everlasting arms.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Strong, Men, Weakness

  Charles Spurgeon (2001). “Morning & Evening”, Whitaker House

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• Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.

  Richard Miller

  Uncles, Men, Funeral

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• 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!’.

  Epictetus

  Wise, Men, Air

  Epictetus (2013). “The Golden Sayings of Epictetus In Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, BookCaps Study Guides

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• A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Too Much, Rich

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• 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.

  Erica Jong

  Beautiful, Stars, Powerful

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• Now it must be asked if we can comprehend why comets signify the death of magnates and coming wars, for writers of philosophy say so. The reason is not apparent, since vapor no more rises in a land where a pauper lives than where a rich man resides, whether he be king or someone else. Furthermore, it is evident that a comet has a natural cause not dependent on anything else; so it seems that it has no relation to someone's death or to war. For if it be said that it does relate to war or someone's death, either it does so as a cause or effect or sign.
  De Cometis

  Albertus Magnus

  Kings, Philosophy, War

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• The female doesn't want a rich man or a handsome man or even a poet, she wants a man who understands her eyes if she gets sad, and points to his chest and say : 'Here is your home country.'

  Nizar Qabbani

  Country, Home, Eye

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• You may cut off the heads of every rich man now living--of every statesman--every literary, and every scientific authority, without in the least changing the social situation. Artists, of course, disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church. Corporations are not elevators, but levellers, as I see them.

  Henry Adams

  Cutting, Artist, Power

  Henry Adams, Ernest Samuels (1992). “Henry Adams, Selected Letters”, p.523, Harvard University Press

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• Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Eggs, Generosity

  Henry Ward Beecher (1897). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

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• I am the rich man's guru.

  Rajneesh

  Men, Rich, Guru

  "The Last Testament: Interviews with the World Press". Book by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, 1986.

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• He is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are poor; and how to give access to themasterpieces of art and nature, is the problem of civilization.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Men, Civilization

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.367

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• No capitalists after any war were ever so well paid for money loaned to the nation that carried it on. No class of money-makers ever gained such prosperity by any other war, as our War for the Union brought to the money-getters of America. All this was due in great measure to the rank and file of the Union army. Now let no rich man haggle with a needy veteran of that war about his right to a pension!

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  War, Army, Men

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• A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.

  Amiri Baraka

  Money, Men, People

  Kulchur Spring 1962 "Tokenism"

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• Everything made by man may be destroyed by man; there are no ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature; and nature makes neither princes nor rich men nor great lords.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Nature, Character, Men

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• There is a saying in Tibetan that "at the door of the miserable rich man sleeps the contented beggar". The point of this saying is not that poverty is a virtue, but that happiness does not come with wealth, but from setting limits to one's desires, and living within those limits with satisfaction.

  Dalai Lama

  Sleep, Men, Doors

  "Your Emotional Fitness: Everything You Need to Know to Live a Life of Abundance". Book by Gary Rubin, p. 173, 2013.

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• Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.

  Dave Barry

  Technology, Men, Answers

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry in Cyberspace”, p.23, Ballantine Books

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