Rich Quotes - Page 6

• Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for.

  William Hazlitt

  Luxury, Poverty, Vain

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1500, Delphi Classics

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• The hard part of loving is that one has to learn so often to let go of those we love, so they can do things, so they can grow, so they can return to us with an even richer, deeper love.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Love, Letting Go, Return

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• The ruling class is the rich. . . . And those people are so able to manipulate our democracy that they really control the democracy.

  Walter Cronkite

  Class, People, Political

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• Listen to the lyrics - we're singing about everyday life: rich people trying to keep money, poor people tying to get it, and everyone having trouble with their husband or wife!

  Buddy Guy

  Husband, People, Wife

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• A rich and varied menu is for people who have no work to do.

  Roald Amundsen

  Food, People, Menus

  Roald Amundsen (2013). “The South Pole”, p.65, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Ah! on Thanksgiving day, when from East and from West, From North and South, come the pilgrim and guest, When the gray-haired New Englander sees round his board The old broken links of affection restored, When the care-wearied man seeks his mother once more, And the worn matron smiles where the girl smiled before. What moistens the lips and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past, like the rich pumpkin pie?

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Girl, Mother, Eye

  1844 'The Pumpkin,' stanza 3.

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• If you decide to become a veterinary surgeon you will never grow rich, but you will have a life of endless interest and variety.

  James Herriot

  Endless, Interest, Grows

  James Herriot (2012). “If Only They Could Talk: The classic memoirs of a 1930s vet”, p.103, Pan Macmillan

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• An island Utopia in a modern, busy, everyday world. A land where there are neither rich nor poor. A heaven on earth - without a fence around it.

  William Wrigley, Jr.

  Islands, Heaven, Everyday

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• Dreams are the subtle Dower
  That make us rich an Hour
  Then fling us poor
  Out of the purple door.

  Emily Dickinson

  Dream, Doors, Purple

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1656, Delphi Classics

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• He is not rich, that enjoyeth not his own goods.

  Pythagoras

  Gratitude, Goods

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• There is no sound basis upon which it may be assumed that all poor men are godly and all rich men are evil, no more than it could be assumed that all rich men are good and all poor men are bad.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Godly, Bad Ass, Men

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• The blessings of one mountain day, whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.

  John Muir

  Short Life, Fate, Blessing

  John Muir (2015). “John Muir’s Incredible Travel Memoirs: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, My First Summer in the Sierra, The Mountains of California, Travels in Alaska, Steep Trails… (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs & Wilderness Studies from the Naturalist, Environmental Philosopher and Early Advocate of Preservation of Wilderness, the Author of The Yosemite and Picturesque California”, p.136, e-artnow

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• Do not be ashamed of being poor, or of asking alms. Receive what is given you with humility, and accept a refusal meekly. Frequently call to mind Our Lady's journey into Egypt with her Holy Child, and of all the poverty, contempt and suffering they endured. If you follow their example you will indeed be rich amid your poverty.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Children, Humility, Journey

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “Introduction to the Devout Life”, p.211, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Mitt Romney is doing what he can. He's trying very hard. He wants to unite America, the rich with the wealthy, the poor with the indigent, and the white with the Caucasian.

  David Letterman

  White, America, Trying

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• I am not biased against the rich because they are rich, but the most lively people are those without money who would like to have some

  Errol Flynn

  Wisdom, Australia, People

  Errol Flynn, Jeffrey Meyers (2002). “My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn”, p.414, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I am on the side of the underdog except when I am on the side of the rich

  Errol Flynn

  Wisdom, Australia, Underdog

  Errol Flynn, Jeffrey Meyers (2002). “My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn”, p.417, Rowman & Littlefield

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• There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war, or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.

  Will Rogers

  War, Pestilence, Helping

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• The man who lives for himself is a failure. Even if he gains much wealth, position or fortune, he is still a failure. The man who lives for others has achieved true success. A rich man who consecrates his wealth and his position to the good of humanity is a success.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Failure, Men, Humanity

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• I don't want to get rich - just live good.

  Patsy Cline

  Want, Just Live, Get Rich

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• He is rich enough who does not want bread.

  St. Jerome

  Food, Doe, Want

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• Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike. This natural beauty-hunger is made manifest in the little window-sill gardens of the poor, though perhaps only a geranium slip in a broken cup, as well as in the carefully tended rose and lily gardens of the rich, the thousands of spacious city parks and botanical gardens, and in our magnificent National parks — the Yellowstone, Yosemite, Sequoia, etc. — Nature's sublime wonderlands, the admiration and joy of the world.

  John Muir

  Beauty, Nature, Cheer

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.814, Library of America

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• America already holds the record for freak movements. Now we have a new one. It's called "Restoring Confidence." Rich men who never had a mission in life outside of watching a stock ticker are working day and night "restoring confidence." Writers are working night shifts, speakers' tables are littered up, ministers are preaching statistics, all on "restoring confidence."

  Will Rogers

  Business, Night, Men

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• Sure must be a great consolation to the poor people who lost their stock in the late crash to know that it has fallen in the hands of Mr. Rockefeller, who will take care of it and see that it has a good home and never be allowed to wander around unprotected again. There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war or famine, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.

  Will Rogers

  Business, War, Home

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• Now they got such a high inheritance tax on 'em that you won't catch these old rich boys dying promiscuously like they did. This bill makes patriots out of everybody. You sure do die for your country if you die from now on.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Boys, Dying

  Will Rogers (1955). “Sanity is where you find it: an affectionate history of the United States in the 20's and 30's”

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• They are having quite an argument over Treasury Secretary Mellon's Tax Bill. Mr. Mellon wants to cut the surtax on the rich, and leave it as is on the poor, as there is more poor than rich. I suppose the majority will win.

  Will Rogers

  Cutting, Winning, Bills

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