Rich Quotes - Page 25

• The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

  Josiah Strong

  Cities, Riches, Poverty

  Josiah Strong (1885). “Our country: its possible future and its present crisis”

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• I remember thinking, without pride of self-pity, that I was not rich or poor, that I wasn't good or bad. But that was difficult: to be neither good nor bad. It seemed to me, in the end, the same as being bad.

  Alejandro Zambra

  Pride, Thinking, Rich Or Poor

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• When I illustrate a cover or a book, I draw upon what the author tells me; that's how I see my responsibility as an illustrator. J.K. Rowling is very descriptive in her writing — she gives an illustrator a lot to work with. Each story is packed full of rich visual descriptions of the atmosphere, the mood, the setting, and all the different creatures and people. She makes it easy for me. The images just develop as I sketch and retrace until it feels right and matches her vision.

  Mary GrandPre

  Book, Writing, Responsibility

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• The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their grave only the bruises and marks of their toil.

  Saint Augustine

  Night, Treasure, Riches

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 523, 1895.

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• The workmen's revolution, with the terrors of destruction and murder, not only threatens us, but we have already been living upon its verge during the last thirty years, and it is only by various cunning devices that we have been postponing the crisis. The hatred and contempt of the oppressed people are increasing, and the physical and moral strength of the richer classes are decreasing: the deceit which supports all this is wearing out, and the rich classes have nothing wherewith to comfort themselves.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Years, Class, People

  "What is to be done?". Book by Leo Tolstoy, p. 262, 1899.

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• Do you dare to accuse wine of clouding the reason? Quote me more marvelous effects than those of wine. Look! when a man drinks, he is rich, everything he touches succeeds, he gains lawsuits, is happy and helps his friends. Come, bring hither quick a flagon of wine, that I may soak my brain and get an ingenious idea.

  Aristophanes

  Wine, Men, Ideas

  Aristophanes (2013). “The Eleven Comedies”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• As the cream abandons the milk from which it took its life, and rises to the top and rides there, so men, because they are richer than those around about them, separate themselves, and all mankind below them they regard as skim milk.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Riches, Milk

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.381

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• The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Work, Men, Poor

  Henry Ward Beecher (1850). “Industry and idleness: with causes of dishonesty : to which are appended six warnings”, p.16

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• They say that the Dead die not, but remain Near to the rich heirs of their grief and mirth. I think they ride the calm mid-heaven, as these, In wise majestic melancholy train, And watch the moon, and the still-raging seas, And men, coming and going on the earth.

  Rupert Brooke

  Wise, Grief, Moon

  Rupert Brooke (2007). “1914 & Other Poems”, p.37, Jeremy Mills Publishing

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• One just spends as much money as one has. Very peculiar that! You never actually have any money. You think, If I had this much money ten years ago, I would have thought I was amazingly rich, but I still manage to spend it all and not have any left.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Money, Thinking, Years

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• In Harlem, for instance, all of the stores are owned by white people, all of the buildings are owned by white people. The black people are just there - paying rent, buying the groceries; but they don't own the stores, clothing stores, food stores, any kind of stores; don't even own the homes that they live in. They are all owned by outsiders, and for these run-down apartment dwellings, the black man in Harlem pays more money than the man down in the rich Park Avenue section.

  Malcolm X

  Running, Home, Men

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• We are promised abundance of all good things--yet we are rich only in hunger and thirst. What would become of us if we did not take our stand on hope, and if our heart did not hasten beyond this world!

  John Calvin

  Hope, Heart, World

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• Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable. It may, for a while, be irksome to do this, but that will wear off; and the practice will produce a rich harvest forever thereafter; whether in public or private walks of life.

  George Washington

  Practice, Forever, Healthy

  George Washington (1908). “Letters and Addresses,”

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• Great thoughts in crude, unshapely verse set forth lose half their preciousness, and ever must, unless the diamond with its own rich dust be cut and polished, it seems little worth.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Cutting, Dust, Half

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “Poems”

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• In both rich and poor nations consumption is polarized while expectation is equalized.

  Ivan Illich

  Expectations, Poor Nations, Consumption

  Ivan Illich, Lionel Rubinoff (1971). “Tradition and Revolution”, Macmillan of Canada ; New York : St. Martin's Press

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• The feeling of love is a rich feeling, but the expression of love in word or deed is a joy.

  Alexander Lowen

  Love Is, Expression, Joy

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• You can say that I've grown bitter but of this you can be sure. The rich have get their channels in the bedrooms of the poor. And there's a mighty Judgement coming but I may be wrong.

  Leonard Cohen

  Judgement, May, Bitter

  Leonard Cohen (2008). “The Lyrics of Leonard Cohen: Enhanced Edition”, p.250, Omnibus Press

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• A million million worlds that move in peace;A million mighty laws that never cease;And one small ant-heap, hidden by small weeds,Rich with eggs, slaves and store of millet-seeds.They sleep beneath the sodAnd trust in God.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Weed, Moving, Sleep

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Gary Scharnhorst (2012). “Charlotte Perkins Gilman's In this Our World and Uncollected Poems”, p.7, Syracuse University Press

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• I consider a good reputation is a great part of the human happiness. Some people, if they are very, very rich can permit themselves certain negligence to their reputations.

  Aristotle Onassis

  People, Reputation, Neglect

  "Ari: Life and Times of Aristotle Socrates Onassis". Book by Peter Evans, 1978.

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• In the courtroom, watch the balance of the scalesIf the price is right, there's time for more appealsThe strings are pulled, the switch is stayedThe finest lawyers fees are paidAnd a rich man never died upon the chair

  Phil Ochs

  Men, Balance, Watches

  Song: The Iron Lady, Album: I Ain't Marching Anymore

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

  Patsy Cline

  Just Live, Get Rich

  From a 1955 bio sheet; reproduced in liner notes, "The Patsy Cline Collection" album, MCA Nashville Records, 1992.

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• BRAZILIFICATION:The widening gulf between the rich and the poor and the accompanying disappearance of the middle classes.

  Douglas Coupland

  Class, Poor, Middle

  1991 Generation X,'Our Parents Had More'.

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• The Philippines is in a strategic position. It is both East and West, right and left, rich and poor. We are neither here nor there.

  Imelda Marcos

  East, Philippines, West

  Katipunan Magazine, February 1982.

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• It had long been true, and prisoners knew this better than anyone, that the poorer you were the more likely you were to end up in jail. This was not just because the poor committed more crimes. In fact, they did. The rich did not have to commit crimes to get what they wanted; the laws were on their side. But when the rich did commit crimes, they often were not prosecuted, and if they were they could get out on bail, hire clever lawyers, get better treatment from judges. Somehow, the jails ended up full of poor black people.

  Howard Zinn

  Clever, Law, Jail

  Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.516, Routledge

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• If you bail out every investment bank that gets in trouble, that's not capitalism, that's socialism for the rich

  Jim Rogers

  Bail, Trouble, Socialism

  "Jim Rogers: 'Abolish the Fed'". www.cnbc.com. March 12, 2008.

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