Talk:Wealth

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 * A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money. – W.C. Fields


 * Money can't buy me love. – The Beatles, (pop song).


 * The Rich aren't like us—they pay less taxes. – Peter De Vries


 * To turn $100 into $110 is work. To turn $100 million into $110 million is inevitable. – Edgar Bronfman, Sr.


 * Hereditary wealth is in reality a premium paid to idleness. – William Godwin


 * I've been rich and I've been poor. Believe me honey, rich is better. – Sophie Tucker


 * This court is no respecter of wealth or other claims of immunity! – Kenesaw Mountain Landis


 * The only question with wealth is what you do with it. – John D. Rockefeller, Jr.


 * Inherited wealth is as certain death to ambition as cocaine is to morality. – William Kissam Vanderbilt II


 * Wealth does not corrupt nor does it enoble. – Robert Coles


 * It doesn't matter if you're rich or poor, as long as you've got money. – Joe E. Lewis (1902-1971), American comedian and singer


 * The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it. – Comte de Rivarol (1753-1801).


 * Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by other men. – Charles Caleb Colton


 * Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, it means leisure, it means liberty. – James Russell Lowell (1819-1891).


 * The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth. – Franklin Delano Roosevelt


 * Wealth is a very dangerous inheritance, unless the inheritor is trained to active benevolence. – Charles Simmons


 * Riches may not make you any friends, but they greatly increase the class and variety of your enemies. – Auric Goldfinger


 * If I hadn't been very rich, I might have been a really great man. - Orson Welles as Charles Foster Kane in Citizen Kane.

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 * A wealthy man always has followers. – Anonymous


 * If thou goest to a foreign country, do not alight at a rich man's house. – Anonymous


 * If thou art poor, do not make a rich man thy friend. – Anonymous


 * The rich may go down and the poor up, but it still doesn't end up even. – Anonymous


 * It is better to be poor and live long than rich and die young. – Anonymous


 * On top of Nob Hill, a man's neighbours count his carriages, not his expenses. – Anonymous


 * Live fast, die young and leave a good-looking corpse. – Anonymous


 * For one rich man that is content there are a hundred that aren't. – Anonymous


 * For every rich man who is happy there are a lot more poor men who aren't. – Anonymous


 * We can't all be rich, who'd do the work? – Anonymous


 * A rich man and his dough, make bread. – Anonymous


 * Property is the prop of life. – Anonymous


 * Wealth is easy; poverty is a shame. – Anonymous


 * Knowledge makes one laugh but wealth makes one dance. – English proverb


 * Want of wit is worse than want of wealth. – English 18th C. proverb


 * Wealth is best known by want. – English 18th C. proverb


 * A good wife and health is a man's best wealth. – English 18th C. proverb


 * Wealth is like rheum, it falls on the weakest parts. – English 17th C. proverb


 * Riches serve a wise man but command a fool. – Old French proverb


 * If rich people could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living. – Yiddish proverb.


 * If you rub elbows with a rich man, you rub a hole in your sleeve. – Yiddish proverb.


 * The rich may go down and the poor up, but it still doesn't end up even. – Yiddish proverb