Rich Quotes - Page 18

• The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.

  William Ralph Inge

  Men, Average, Littles

  Outspoken Essays Patriotism (pp. 38-9)

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• Often for hors d'oeuvres, I serve room temperature vegetables, something like that, so that the main course might be quite rich but the first course has balanced it out.

  Sally Schneider

  Vegetables, Might, Rooms

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• What if thou be saint or sinner,
  Crooked gray-beard, straight beginner,--
  Empty paunch, or jolly dinner,
  When Death thee shall call.
  All like are rich or richer,
  King with crown, and cross-legged stitcher,
  When the grave hides all.

  Richard Watson Gilder

  Death, Kings, What If

  RICHARD WATSON GILDER (1885). “LYRICS AND OTHER POEMS,”

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• E'en the rough rocks with tender myrtle bloom, and trodden weeds send out a rich perfume.

  Joseph Addison

  Weed, Rocks, Myrtle

  Joseph Addison (1795). “Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments; Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality”, p.179

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• Nature's noblemen are everywhere,--in town and out of town, gloved and rough-handed, rich and poor. Prejudice against a lord, because he is a lord, is losing the chance of finding a good fellow, as much as prejudice against a ploughman because he is a ploughman.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Prejudice, Noblemen, Towns

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1860). “Out-doors at Idlewild: Or, The Shaping of a Home on the Banks of the Hudson”, p.198

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• Things come to the poor that can't get in at the door of the rich. Their money somehow blocks it up. It is a great privilege to be poor--one that no man covets, and brat a very few have sought to retain, but one that yet many have learned to prize.

  George MacDonald

  Block, Men, Doors

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• The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Poverty, Knows, Hard

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• Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.

  Joseph Addison

  Heart, Pride, Men

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• We are apt to rely upon future prospects, and become really expensive while we are only rich in possibility. We live up to our expectations, not to our possessions, and make a figure proportionable to what we may be, not what we are.

  Joseph Addison

  Rely Upon, Expectations, May

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.123

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• I ask and wish not to appear
  More beauteous, rich or gay:
  Lord, make me wiser every year,
  And better every day.

  Charles Lamb

  Prayer, Gay, Years

  Charles Lamb (2008). “The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb”, p.456, Cosimo, Inc.

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• He who wants to get rich wants to get rich quickly.

  Juvenal

  Want, Get Rich

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• Being poor is like being a child. Being rich is like being an adult: you get to do whatever you want. Everyone is nice when they have to be; rich people are nice when they feel like it.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Children, Nice, People

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• There are too few rich and too few profits.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Profit

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• the rich are different only because people treat them as if they were.

  Judith Krantz

  People, Different, Wealth

  Judith Krantz (2011). “Scruples”, p.295, Bantam

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• Every one is weary, the poore in seeking, the rich in keeping, the good in learning.

  George Herbert

  Weary, Seeking

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.312

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• A rich dress adds but little to the beauty of a person. It may possibly create a deference, but that is rather an enemy to love.

  William Shenstone

  Enemy, Dresses, Add

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.109

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• Being very rich as far as I am concerned is having a margin. The margin is being able to give.

  May Sarton

  Giving, Able, Wealth

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.28, Open Road Media

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• While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks.

  Warren Buffett

  Struggle, Fighting, Class

  "Stop Coddling the Super-Rich" by Warren Buffett, www.nytimes.com. August 14. 2011.

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• America is my home - I believe in her promise and I will do what I can to secure that promise for future generations of our children. America is great - not because of our military might or our economic strength - but because of the greatness of Americans, and I welcome the opportunity to stand shoulder to shoulder, side by side with all of you to preserve our heritage rich in "liberty and justice for all."

  Alberto Gonzales

  Children, Military, Believe

  Remarks at his installation as Attorney General, www.justice.gov. February 14, 2005.

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• A poore mans Cow dies a rich mans child.

  George Herbert

  Children, Cows, Dies

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.318

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• A snow yeare, a rich yeare.

  George Herbert

  Snow

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.320

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• Good workemen are seldome rich.

  George Herbert

  Good Work

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.352

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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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• Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.

  Ben Jonson

  Men, Order, Law

  Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.3200, Delphi Classics

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• I've always thought that the most perfect fate which could befall any woman would be to be born a rich widow.

  Faith Baldwin

  Women, Fate, Perfect

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