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