Sunday, February 16, 2014 – The Woes of the One Percent
No man is rich enough to buy back his past. ~ Oscar Wilde
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. ~ Thomas Jefferson
There are people who have money and people who are rich. ~ Coco Chanel
The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we’ll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last ten years, and I hope the American public is catching on. ~ Warren Buffett
He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor. ~ Grover Cleveland
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. ~ Henry David Thoreau
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 Shaw
What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class. ~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. ~ Francis Bacon
A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office every day. Not because he likes it but because he can’t think of anything else to do. ~ W. H. Auden
You can get rich making fun of me. I know. I’ve made lots of money making fun of me. ~ Glenn Beck
I’m rich, freakin’ rich. It’s crazy. ~ Britney Spears
They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody? ~ Princess Diana
Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich. ~ Samuel Johnson
These are my new shoes. They’re good shoes. They won’t make you rich like me, they won’t make you rebound like me; they definitely won’t make you handsome like me. They’ll only make you have shoes like me. That’s it. ~ Charles Barkley
Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor. ~ John Ruskin
Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That’s how rich I want to be. ~ Rita Rudner
Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich. ~ G. K. Chesterton
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. ~ G. K. Chesterton
Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality. ~ Lord Acton
It doesn’t matter whether you are rich or poor – as long as you’ve got money. ~ Joe E. Lewis
It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich. ~ Alan Alda
Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it’s the rich people who keep saying it. ~ Jack Paar
In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face. ~ Diogenes of Sinope
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. ~ Evelyn Waugh
The only thing I like about rich people is their money. ~ Nancy Astor
You can never become rich unless you like rich people. ~ Doug Coupland
There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can’t think of one at the moment. ~ Paul Theroux
People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius. ~ Jerry Lewis
Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round. ~ Walter Annenberg
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: “Whose?” ~ Don Marquis
Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee – and not too far away lest he forget thee. ~ Aneurin Bevan
Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. ~ Oscar Wilde
Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it’s open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. ~ Dave Barry
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 Martin
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. ~ John F. Kennedy, Inaugural address, 1961
In Europe the rich are refined enough to act as if they’re not wealthy. That is how civilized people behave. If you ask me, being cultured and civilized is not about everyone being free and equal; it’s about everyone being refined enough to act as if they were. Then no one has to feel guilty. ~ Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence
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