Rich Man Quotes - Page 11

• By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.

  Thomas More

  Wise, Men, Office

  Thomas More (1997). “Utopia”, p.54, Wordsworth Editions

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• They that hold the greatest farmes, pay the least rent (applyed to rich men that are unthankful to God).

  George Herbert

  Men, Pay, Rich

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.369

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• The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended to produce a very unhealthy condition.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Greed, Arrogance

  Theodore Roosevelt (1952). “The big stick, 1905-1907”

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• Certain rich men, whose lives are evil and corrupt, are the representatives of predatory wealth accumulated by all forms of inequity, from the oppression of wage workers to unfair methods of crushing out competition.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Crush, Men, Evil

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• It wasn't that I amassed it with aims of selling it and becoming a rich man. My personality demanded that I be surrounded by the best examples of the world's art.

  Hermann Goring

  Art, Men, Personality

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• The eighth commandment reads, "Thou shalt not steal." It does not read, "Thou shalt not steal from the rich man." It does not read, "Thou shalt not steal from the poor man." It reads simply and plainly, "Thou shalt not steal."

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Doe, Rich

  The Man with the Muck-rake, delivered 14 April 1906

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• Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity should look up again at the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wise, Father, Pursuit Of Happiness

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• It's something I've always kicked around, not doing the eBook but the Rich Man, Poor Man thing.

  Adam Carolla

  Men, Rich, Poor

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• 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

  Baby, Men, Rich

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• Besides, Jesus was a rich man. He had to have been, in order to have supported his disciples and their families during his ministry.

  T. D. Jakes

  Jesus, Men, Order

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• Life's been good to me. Why am I so lonely and bored? I used to wonder why so many rich men commit suicide. I no longer wonder.

  O. J. Simpson

  Suicide, Lonely, Men

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• In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, World, Finance

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• I met rich men and they became my boyfriends. When I was a kept woman'it was a relationship.

  Kola Boof

  Men, My Boyfriend, Kept Woman

  "Kola Boof: Words with the Author of the Best Black Book of 2006". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal.

  Frank Dane

  Men, Thinking, Squares

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• I never played a rich man, I never played a prince. And to play a sailor or longshoreman you had to make your dance more eclectic and varied, but still keep it indigenous to your nationality, upbringing, and background.

  Gene Kelly

  Men, Play, Sailor

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Men, House, Hobbies

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• To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Rich, Poor

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• Let us not repine, or so much as think the gifts of God unequally dealt, if we see another abound with riches, when, as God knows, the cares that are the keys that keep those riches hang often so heavily at the rich man's girdle that they dog him with weary days and restless nights, even when others sleep quietly.

  Izaak Walton

  Dog, Sleep, Night

  Izaak Walton (1653). “The Complete Angler: Or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation”, p.225

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• We see but the outside of a rich man's happiness; few consider him to be like the silkworm, that, when she seems to play, is at the very same time consuming herself.

  Izaak Walton

  Men, Play, Riches

  Izaak Walton (1853). “The Complete Angler ... Edited by James Rennie. With illustrations and a portrait”, p.234

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