Rich Quotes - Page 28

The use of riches is better than their possession.

It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.

You can't work three hours a week and make $100,000. Get rich quick doesn't work. Crock pot mentality always defeats microwave mentality!

No one got rich on a government program. Do not choose to be a common man. You can be uncommon.

My mother told me, “Son, it is better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick.” I have tried very hard to heed those words.

The scientific community having made a rapid ascent from deep poverty to great affluence, from academe's cloisters to Washington's high councils, still tends to be a bit excitable - not unlike a nouveau riche in a fluctuating market.

Infinite riches in a little room.

Babies don't know who's rich and who's poor. You love 'em and they're happy.

If beating yourself up worked you'd be rich, thin, and happy. Try loving yourself instead.

We are so very rich if we know just a few people in a way in which we know no others.

We [US] are the biggest per person, by a substantial amount, greenhouse emitters, and we give the most foreign aid, not per person but in absolute. This is another issue where hopefully we will take a long-term approach which, even though we sometimes have a hard time doing that, it's easier for us, as a rich country with this kind of scientific depth, than it is for the poor countries who will suffer the problems.

We went there to serve God, and also to get rich.

Contentment makes a poor person rich and discontent makes a rich person poor.

Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.

Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.

She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.

It is certain that despotism ruins individuals by preventing them from producing wealth much more than by depriving them of what they have already produced; it dries up the source of riches, while it usually respects acquired property. Freedom, on the contrary, produces far more goods than it destroys; and the nations which are favored by free institutions invariably find that their resources increase even more rapidly than their taxes.

Life on the planet is born of woman.

How wrong Emily Dickinson was! Hope is not "the thing with feathers." The thing with feathers has turned out to be my nephew. I must take him to a specialist in Zurich.

Rich, ornate prose is hard to digest, generally unwholesome, and sometimes nauseating.

The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell.

Keetje Kuipers' poems are daring, formally beautiful and driven by rich imagery and startling ideas.

We can no longer afford to be entertained beyond the point of accountability. We can't keep selling each other out and be willing to do anything to be seen, to be famous or to be rich.