Rich poor Quotes

Do not judge by appearances; a rich heart may be under a poor coat.

The inner speech, your thoughts, can cause you to be rich or poor, loved or unloved, happy or unhappy, attractive or unattractive, powerful or weak.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people.

I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.

The right time to dine is: for the rich man, when he is hungry;

and for the poor, when he has something to eat.

When the rich wage war it is the poor who die.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.

When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

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

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor -- as long as you've got money.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job?

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.

I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.

We are rich only through what we give; and poor only through we refuse and keep.

Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

Its easy to have principles when you're rich.

The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor.

I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will.

No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer.

He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

Planning ahead is a measure of class.

The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.

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.

The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

We have a system of justice in [the US] that treats you much better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent. Wealth, not culpability, shapes outcomes.

All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.

Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited;

and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.

I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor.

This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place.

The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.

For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple.