Rich Quotes - Page 8

• The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Reflection, Men, House

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.232, Xist Publishing

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• He is not rich, that enjoyeth not his own goods.

  Pythagoras

  Gratitude, Goods

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• If you decide to become a veterinary surgeon you will never grow rich, but you will have a life of endless interest and variety.

  James Herriot

  Endless, Interest, Grows

  James Herriot (2012). “If Only They Could Talk: The classic memoirs of a 1930s vet”, p.103, Pan Macmillan

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• Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.

  Oscar Wilde

  Exercise, Class, Needs

  Quoted in Hesketh Pearson, Oscar Wilde, His Life and Wit (1946)

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• The hard part of loving is that one has to learn so often to let go of those we love, so they can do things, so they can grow, so they can return to us with an even richer, deeper love.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Love, Letting Go, Return

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• The man who lives for himself is a failure. Even if he gains much wealth, position or fortune, he is still a failure. The man who lives for others has achieved true success. A rich man who consecrates his wealth and his position to the good of humanity is a success.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Failure, Men, Humanity

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• Listen to the lyrics - we're singing about everyday life: rich people trying to keep money, poor people tying to get it, and everyone having trouble with their husband or wife!

  Buddy Guy

  Husband, People, Wife

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

  Patsy Cline

  Want, Just Live, Get Rich

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• Dreams are the subtle Dower
  That make us rich an Hour
  Then fling us poor
  Out of the purple door.

  Emily Dickinson

  Dream, Doors, Purple

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1656, Delphi Classics

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• There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war, or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.

  Will Rogers

  War, Pestilence, Helping

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• Do not be ashamed of being poor, or of asking alms. Receive what is given you with humility, and accept a refusal meekly. Frequently call to mind Our Lady's journey into Egypt with her Holy Child, and of all the poverty, contempt and suffering they endured. If you follow their example you will indeed be rich amid your poverty.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Children, Humility, Journey

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “Introduction to the Devout Life”, p.211, Catholic Way Publishing

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• I am not biased against the rich because they are rich, but the most lively people are those without money who would like to have some

  Errol Flynn

  Wisdom, Australia, People

  Errol Flynn, Jeffrey Meyers (2002). “My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn”, p.414, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for.

  William Hazlitt

  Luxury, Poverty, Vain

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1500, Delphi Classics

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• Does not the whole history of socialism, particularly of French socialism, which is so rich in revolutionary striving, show us that when the working people themselves take power in their hands the ruling classes resort to unheard-of crimes and shootings if it is a matter of protecting their money-bags.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Hands, Class, People

  "Report on the Activities of the Council of People's Commissars". Book by Vladimir Lenin, Collected Works, Vol. 26, pp. 459-61, January 24, 1918.

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• America already holds the record for freak movements. Now we have a new one. It's called "Restoring Confidence." Rich men who never had a mission in life outside of watching a stock ticker are working day and night "restoring confidence." Writers are working night shifts, speakers' tables are littered up, ministers are preaching statistics, all on "restoring confidence."

  Will Rogers

  Business, Night, Men

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• Sure must be a great consolation to the poor people who lost their stock in the late crash to know that it has fallen in the hands of Mr. Rockefeller, who will take care of it and see that it has a good home and never be allowed to wander around unprotected again. There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war or famine, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.

  Will Rogers

  Business, War, Home

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• Up from the meadows rich with corn, Clear in the cool September morn

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Corn, Months, September

  'Barbara Frietchie' l. 1

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• Most investors say "Don't take risks." The rich investor takes risks.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Risk, Financial, Investors

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• I went to university with no money. I can't understand a society that wouldn't give a poor person the same opportunity as a rich person.

  Ricky Gervais

  Opportunity, Giving, Poor

  "Ricky Gervais: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 12, 2012.

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• What's so great about TV is that you can get an opportunity to tell really rich stories, over the course of so many hours. It's like a novel of this type of medium.

  Chris Pratt

  Opportunity, Tvs, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• Mysterious spaces cause us to turn inward. Amid a rich upwelling of association, we encounter many aspects of ourselves. As we grow still, we come in contact with a unified, empty, yet full ground of our being. As our consciousness grows more spacious, we find connections between us and the wider world, a shared greater reality.

  John Paul Caponigro

  Reality, Space, Inward

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• Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Democracy, Minorities, Capitalist

  "Collected Works" by Vladimir Lenin, vol. 25, 1993.

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• In capitalist society we have a democracy that is curtailed, wretched, false, a democracy only for the rich, for the minority. The dictatorship of the proletariat, the period of transition to communism, will for the first time create democracy for the people, for the majority, along with the necessary suppression of the exploiters, of the minority.

  Vladimir Lenin

  People, Democracy, Minorities

  "The State and Revolution". Book by Vladimir Lenin, 1917.

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• What do you suppose makes all men look back to the time of childhood with so much regret (if their childhood has been, in any moderate degree, healthy or peaceful)? That rich charm, which the least possession had for us, was in consequence of the poorness of our treasures.

  John Ruskin

  Regret, Men, Childhood

  John Ruskin “Two paths. Lectures on art, delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary Term, 1870. Aratra Pentelici. Time and tide. Pre-Raphaelitism. The eagle's nest. King of the Golden River. The relation between Michael Angelo and Tintoret”

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• We're comfortable with movie stars having money. We're comfortable with a woman marrying a rich guy and having money. We're not so comfortable with a woman independently working in business and making a lot of money.

  Candace Bushnell

  Stars, Independent Women, Guy

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