Richness proverbs

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◆ Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.

- L.M. Montgomery99

◆ I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.

- Charles Bukowski99

◆ A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

- Henry David Thoreau99

◆ I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks. Got a fur sink. An electric dog polisher. A gasoline powered turtleneck sweater. And, of course, I bought some dumb stuff, too.

- Steve Martin99

◆ The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people. So long as their fair demands - the ownership and control of their livelihoods - are set at naught, we can have neither men's rights nor women's rights. The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small remnant may live in ease.

- Helen Keller99

◆ In the past, humans hesitated when they took lives, even non-human lives. But society had changed, and they no longer felt that way. As humans grew stronger, I think that we became quite arrogant, losing the sorrow of 'we have no other choice.' I think that in the essence of human civilization, we have the desire to become rich without limit, by taking the lives of other creatures.

- Hayao Miyazaki99

◆ Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

- George Bernard Shaw99

◆ History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.

- Jeffrey D. Sachs99

◆ There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning.

- Warren Buffett99

◆ The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

- Napoleon Hill99

◆ To us — richer and cleverer than everyone else!

- Scott Lynch99

◆ Conservatives say if you don't give the rich more money, they will lose their incentive to invest. As for the poor, they tell us they've lost all incentive because we've given them too much money.

- George Carlin99

◆ Why are you not smarter? It's only the rich who can't afford to be smart. They're compromised. They got locked years ago into privilege. They have to protect their belongings. No one is meaner than the rich. Trust me. But they have to follow the rules of their shitty civilised world. They declare war, they have honour, and they can't leave. But you two. We three. We're free.

- Michael Ondaatje99

◆ When you have two people who love each other, are happy and gay and really good work is being done by one or both of them, people are drawn to them as surely as migrating birds are drawn at night to a powerful beacon. If the two people were as solidly constructed as the beacon there would be little damage except to the birds. Those who attract people by their happiness and their performance are usually inexperienced. They do not know how not to be overrun and how to go away. They do not always learn about the good, the attractive, the charming, the soon-beloved, the generous, the understanding rich who have no bad qualities and who give each day the quality of a festival and who, when they have passed and taken the nourishment they needed, leave everything deader than the roots of any grass Attila's horses' hooves have ever scoured.

- Ernest Hemingway99

◆ I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

- Warren Buffett99