Rich Folks Quotes

#1. In any case, in Vermont $500 is a lot of money for dinner. I hope these rich folks enjoyed themselves.

Bernie Sanders

#2. Ay! idleness! the rich folks never fail
To find some reason why the poor deserve
Their miseries.

Robert Southey

#3. I would like to see every single soldier on every single side, just take off your helmet, unbuckle your kit, lay down your rifle, and set down at the side of some shady lane, and say, nope, I aint a gonna kill nobody. Plenty of rich folks wants to fight. Give them the guns.

Woody Guthrie

#4. Rich folks always talk hard times.

Lillian Smith

#5. They talk o' rich folks bein' stuck up and genteel, but for iron-clad pride o' respectability there's nowt like poor chapel folk. Why, 'tis as cold as the wind on Greenhow Hill
aye, and colder, too, for 'twill never change.

Rudyard Kipling

#6. The poor folks hate the rich folks, and the rich folks hate the poor folks. All of my folks hate all of your folks, it's American as apple pie.

Tom Lehrer

#7. Rich folks may ride on camels, but it ain't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye.

Charles Dickens

#8. Some of these rich folks seem to think that everything belongs to them and they'll even get to take it with them when they die. But you know what? You don't ever see a hearse pulling a U Haul.

Jim Hightower

#9. For whoso dies for Christ, he is conqueror and is delivered from all misery and attains the eternal joy to which may it please our Saviour to bring us all.

Jan Hus

#10. What I would say is that vows and rings don't change anything: the challenges are the same. Every day is just a conscious commitment to making the next day better.

America Ferrera

#11. If the same phrase in the same place created the right effect, I was perfectly prepared to use it every time. I wasn't worried that I wasn't improvising.

Alexis Korner

#12. Folk like to pretend they know everything about the world. Rich folk especially. Maps are great for that. [ ... ] You don't have blanks on your map, so the folks who draw them shade in a piece and write, 'The Eld.' You might as well burn a hole right through the map for what good that does.

Patrick Rothfuss

#13. Another hundred years were ground up and churned, and what had happened was all muddied by the way folks wanted it to be -- more rich and meaningful the farther back it was.

John Steinbeck

#14. We used to trust in God. I think it was in 1863 that some genius suggested that it be put upon the gold and silver coins which circulated among the rich. They didn't put it on the nickels and coppers because they didn't think the poor folks had any trust in God.

Mark Twain

#15. Listening to your internal guidance system will lead to a rich, fulfilled, happy life. That's been my experience ... and millions of folks can attest to it in their own lives as well.

Shakti Gawain

#16. I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, dreamed of owning. My mother, Willie Ella Mays Clarke, was a washerwoman for poor white folks in the area of Columbus, Georgia where the writer Carson McCullers once lived.

John Henrik Clarke

#17. So why didn't I switch schools? The other good schools I could have sent Bee to ... well, to get to them, I'd have to drive past a Buca di Beppo. I hated my life enough without having to drive past a Buca di Beppo four times a day.

Maria Semple

#18. Nothing endures but personal qualities.

Walt Whitman

#19. Oh England is a pleasant place for them that's rich and high,
But England is a cruel place for such poor folks as I

Charles Kingsley

#20. I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.

Maeve Binchy

#21. Boys always get the best eyelashes; it's like some kind of cosmic law. And half-breed kids get some kind of extra help there from genetics, too.

Lilith Saintcrow

#22. Where the storyteller is loyal, eternally and unswervingly loyal to the story, there, in the end, silence will speak. Where the story has been betrayed, silence is but emptiness. But we, the faithful, when we have spoken our last word, will hear the voice of silence.

Isak Dinesen

#23. When I was 18, I broke my leg, and my shin came right through - like I had two knees.

Tony McCoy

#24. The night is the color of the eyelids of the dead.

Alejandra Pizarnik

#25. The enemy bombards our front not only with a drumfire of artillery, but also with a drumfire of printed paper. Besides bombs, which kill the body, his airmen also throw down leaflets which are intended to kill the soul.

Paul Von Hindenburg

#26. Sweet desert rose
Each of her veils, a secret promise
This desert flower
No sweet perfume ever tortured me more than this

Sting

#27. Self-employed people work where they live. Entrepreneurs live where they work.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#28. I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions ... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.

Colin Firth