Riches

(289 votes)   Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
1896-1940, American Writer

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(189 votes)   There are two things needed in these days; first, for rich men to find out how poor men live; and second, for poor men to know how rich men work.

Edward Atkinson
1827-1905, American Business, Inventor of Automatic Sprinklers

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(185 votes)   Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Mother Teresa
1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary

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(158 votes)   The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by them, it's because they do not know them.

Mother Teresa
1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary

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(149 votes)   He who knows he has enough is rich.

Lao-tzu
BC 600-?, Chinese Philosopher, Founder of Taoism, Author of the ''Tao Te Ching''

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(114 votes)   Riches enlarge rather than satisfy appetites.

Thomas Fuller
1608-1661, British Clergyman, Author

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(113 votes)   The wretchedness of being rich is that you live with rich people. To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.

Logan Pearsall Smith
1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist

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(105 votes)   The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(99 votes)   Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.

Jean De La BruyFre
1645-1696, French Classical Writer

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(99 votes)   What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(95 votes)   For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself, there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.

Earl Nightingale
1921-1989, American Radio Announcer, Author, Motivator, Speaker

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(93 votes)   The bottom line is in heaven.

Edwin H. Land
1909-1991, American Scientist, Inventor of the Polaroid Camera & Co.

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(89 votes)   Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? Why should you always talk of their envy, without understanding that what they ask of you is not so much your worldly goods, as something very hard to define, which they themselves can put no name to; yet at times it consoles their loneliness; a dream of splendor, of magnificence, a tawdry dream, a poor man's dream --and yet God blesses it!

Georges Bernanos
1888-1948, French Novelist, Political Writer

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(88 votes)   In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.

Diogenes of Sinope
c.410-320 BC, Cynic Philosopher

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(83 votes)   He who multiplies riches, multiplies cares.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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