(694 quotes found)
“Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.”
Wendell Phillips
“The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.”
Charles Baudelaire
“Therefore, to be possessed with double pomp,To guard a title that was rich before,To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,To throw a perfume on the violet,To smooth the ice, or add another hueUnto the rainbow, or with taper lightTo seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.”
William Shakespeare
“To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.”
Muhammad Ali
“A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.”
W. H. Auden
“I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.”
Warren Buffett
“Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive”
Wilbur Wright
“Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.”
“Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear”
“The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.”
Helen Keller
