Top 100 Quotes About Rich Man
#1. If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man.
Jean De La Bruyere
#2. the freedom money gives the poor man is nothing to the freedom money has given the rich man. With money rich men ceased to be tied to lands, houses, stores, flocks and herds. They could change the nature and locality of their possessions with an unheard-of freedom.
H.G.Wells
#3. What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man's fancy and get the benefit of his money by marrying him?
as if a marriage ceremony could make any difference in the right or wrong of the thing!
George Bernard Shaw
#4. A beautiful woman can have almost any man she wants. A rich man can have almost any woman he wants.
Oliver Gaspirtz
#5. All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.
Rajneesh
#6. Mercury poisoning sounds like a rich man's disease ... like something you might get from the leather seats in your Lamborghini.
Jeremy Piven
#8. All things being equal, why not be married to a rich man? (Somewhere, Hannah thinks, there must be a needlepoint pillow asking this very question in a cleverer way.)
Curtis Sittenfeld
#9. A rich man's soup - and all from a few stones. It seemed like magic!
Marcia Brown
#10. When a rich man dies it is more complex than when a poor man dies. A rich man doesn't simply quit living. He quits being rich, too.
Elliott Chaze
#11. I don't need an overpowering, powerful, rich man to feel secure. I'd much rather have a man who is there for me, who really loves me, who is growing, who is real.
Bianca Jagger
#12. A lot of people like to think that golf is a lazy man's sport. Or it's a rich man's sport, or it's a sport that they can't be involved in.
Shia Labeouf
#13. I didn't want to move or act like a rich man. I wanted to dance in a pair of jeans. I wanted to dance like the man in the streets.
Gene Kelly
#14. Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.
Olin Miller
#15. One rich Man hath Lands, not only more than he can manage, but so much, that letting them out to others, he is supplied with a large over-plus, so needs no farther care.
Dudley North
#16. Nothing humbles a rich man better than a poor man that isn't willing to do 'anything' for money.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#17. A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.
Amiri Baraka
#18. Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.
Abu Bakr
#19. When golf used to be a rich man's sport, if you were poor you could not step foot on a course.
Shia Labeouf
#20. It is as necessary for a poor man to give away, as for a rich man. Many poor men are more devoted worshipers of Mammon than some rich men.
George MacDonald
#21. Financially, I'm certainly not a rich man. I spent half my savings just to get on this ship, and by the time we drop anchor in Callao I'll have less than $2k to my name. At 31 years of age, that's nothing to boast about. But I can't say I'm all that worried.
Niall Doherty
#23. In Baby You're A Rich Man the point was, stop moaning, you're a rich man and we're all rich, heh heh, baby!
John Lennon
#24. Nobody wants to make me a rich man. In fact, most people want to make me a very poor man. I can guarantee some people fantasize at night about how poor they can make me.
James Altucher
#25. The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.
Barbara Corcoran
#26. A rich man is not a man without problems but a man whose faith has conquered the problems even when it's there.
Ikechukwu Izuakor
#27. Mr. Dowler, could you go through this? Mr. Algie. Don't answer him, Dowler; he's going beyond all bounds. Paul Ruttledge. I was a rich man and I could not, and yet I am something smaller than a camel, and this is something larger than a needle's eye.
W.B.Yeats
#28. A rich man's war and a poor man's fight ...
Shelby Foote
#29. It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness.
Plautus
#30. For I suspect the next world will more plainly be a going on with this than most people think - only it will be much better for some, and much worse for others, as the Lord has taught us in the parable of the rich man and the beggar.
George MacDonald
#31. Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one.
William Graham Sumner
#33. Sometimes I think that all mankind exist but to be bought and sold: The rich man's paramour is gold, the poor man's goddess, gold, gold, gold.
Ridgely Torrence
#34. The rich man can afford to be happy and wise; the poor man is wiser still, for he understands sadness.
William Henry Chase
#35. A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal.
Frank Dane
#36. That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton ... However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#38. Save your wealth against future calamity. Do not say, "what fear has a rich man of calamity?" Wealth sometimes vanishes away and large accumulations perish.
Chanakya
#39. There is no regular system of taxation, but when the Emperor or the Bashaw want money, they levy on some rich man, and he has to furnish the cash or go to prison. Therefore, few men in Morocco dare to be rich.
Mark Twain
#40. 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
#41. I heard someone say that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to get into heaven. I decided to sculpt camels in a needle.
Willard Wigan
#42. It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.
Gregory Nunn
#43. A man is called a traitor, or liberator. A rich man is a theif or philanthropist. Is one a crusader or ruthless invader? It's all in which label is able to persist.
Gregory Maguire
#44. The rich man is everywhere expected and at home.
Saadi
#45. It is not the rich man's son that the young struggler for advancement has to fear in the race for life, nor his nephew, nor his cousin. Let him look out for the dark horse in the boy who begins by sweeping out the office.
Andrew Carnegie
#46. He who is satisfied with what he has, is a rich man.
Nabil N. Jamal
#48. Stop thinking about class, she'd say. Like a rich man telling a poor man to stop thinking about money.
John Fowles
#49. Bill Gates is a very rich man today ... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.
Dave Barry
#50. Who would be a poor man, a beggar man, a thief, if he held a rich man in his hand?
Jethro Tull
#51. Charity is a cold grey loveless thing. If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.
Clement Attlee
#52. As a rich man, when you mock the poor you fail the test of wealth.
Felix Wantang
#54. The poor man is called a socialist if he believes that the wealth of the rich should be divided among the poor, but the rich man is called a financier if he devises a plan by which the pittance of the poor can be converted to his use.
William Jennings Bryan
#55. The Bible does not say money is the root of all evil; it says the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. A poor man who, in his heart, worships the idea of being rich is more vulnerable to its evils than a rich man who has a heart to use it all for the Lord.
Criss Jami
#56. While a rich man cannot have more than 1440 minutes a day, a clever man makes more time by using OPM or Other Peoples Minutes.-RVM
R.v.m.
#57. Good health, longevity, happiness, a loving family, self-reliance, fine friends ... if you [have] five, you're a rich man ... .
Thomas J. Stanley
#58. It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Ilona Andrews
#59. 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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#60. Education is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich man.
Horace Mann
#61. I lost a world the other day. Has anybody found? You'll know it by the rows of stars around it's forehead bound. A rich man might not notice it; yet to my frugal eye of more esteem than ducats. Oh! Find it, sir, for me!
Emily Dickinson
#62. Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.
Aneurin Bevan
#63. Men are not rich or poor according to what they possess but to what they desire. The only rich man is he that with content enjoys a competence.
Roger Chamberlain
#64. For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.
St. Jerome
#65. The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
Anthony Trollope
#66. In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave.
Jean De La Bruyere
#67. A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.
Joseph Addison
#68. The only difference between a rich man and a poor man, is that the poor man suffers uncomfortably, while the rich man suffers comfortably.
Swami Brahmananda
#69. 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
#70. As a rich man sees no reason for rejoicing in a meager gift of bread until a turn of events leaves him impoverished, so the sinner finds no joy in salvation until the horrid nature of his sin is revealed and he sees himself as wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked.
Paul David Washer
#71. A rich man doesn't need to tell you he's rich.
Neil Strauss
#73. I like football, but I think this is a very personal matter. I don't see any negatives for some Russian rich man to buy a football club.
Viktor Vekselberg
#74. Terence: As my old da used to tell me, 'never trust a rich man'.
David: Good thing I'm only moderately rich.
Terence: Which is why I only moderately distrust you.
Sabrina Jeffries
#75. To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.
Honore De Balzac
#76. 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
#77. A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money
W.C. Fields
#78. A condemned poor man, if steals to feed his starving kid, is slammed into prison. Contrast this to a rich man's crime.
Imran Khan
#79. If a girl is in love with a poor guy and chooses him, then that is worst for her. If she chooses a rich man, it will be to her advantage. Everything will be fine.
Odd Nerdrum
#80. I'm a rich man. To have everything you need is the definition of affluence.
Lee Child
#81. A rich man who robs from the poor is really a pauper in the land of morality.
Dennis Adonis
#82. He, that holds fast the golden mean,
And lives contentedly between
The little and the great,
Feels not the wants that pinch the poor,
Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door,
Imbitt'ring all his state.
Horace
#83. He is the rich man, and enjoys the fruit of his riches, who summer and winter forever can find delight in his own thoughts.
Henry David Thoreau
#85. Riches are a stronghold in the imagination of a rich man.
Solomon
#86. If he had the earth for his pasture and the sea for his pond, he would be a pauper still. He only is rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy or demon who possesses such power as that.
Mentioned in
Sixty Days and Counting, by Kim Stanley Robinson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#87. Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.
Salman Rushdie
#88. The rich man never really gives anything, he only distributes part of the surplus. It is the person of moderate means who really gives.
George Eastman
#89. I'm not a rich man, and Greg Lake is certainly not. I don't know how he can survive. I don't know how he can be that suicidal. But having said that, I'd love to be there to help Greg.
Keith Emerson
#90. The Rich Man's Banquet, which was to last for a decade, had now begun: the feast, it was recognised, went to the greediest.
Osbert Sitwell
#91. Begger or rich man, soldier or merchant, Rufus was indestructible, for the man who could laugh at life or death was in the end the only conqueror.
Rosemary Anne Sisson
#92. With eye upraised his master's looks to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man; The rich man's guardian, and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end.
George Crabbe
#93. 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
#94. If you can create even the illusion of high profitability for a few years, then when the thing collapses you can walk out of the wreckage a very rich man.
Paul Krugman
#95. You do not have to be the son of a rich man to be an entrepreneur. Today kids are far more willing to take risks because they've seen high rewards.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
#96. Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable.
Archibald MacLeish
#97. We have ministers who are incapable of doing what has been ordered from above because there is no follow up, because there are no consequences. If you are poor man and you steal, your hand is cut off after three offences. But if you are a rich man, nobody will say anything to you.
Basmah Bint Saud
#98. To steal from a rich man has always been a greater crime than to kill a poor man.
Victor Serge
#99. Heifer."
"Rich man's whore!"
"At least mine can cook the food he eats. And replaces it, too."
"Now see, Dee-Ann Smith. That was just mean!
Shelly Laurenston
#100. The only instance of praying to saints, mentioned in the Bible, is that of the rich man in torment calling upon Abraham; and let it be remembered, that it was practised only by a lost soul and without success.
Richard Cecil
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