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

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

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Quotes by W. C. Fields

It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
- W. C. Fields

I am free of prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
- W. C. Fields

Smile first thing in the morning. Get it over with.
- W. C. Fields

If at first you don't succeed,
try, try, and try again.
Then give up.
There's no use being a damned fool about it.
- W. C. Fields

The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down
rat holes with baited breath.
- W. C. Fields

Rich Quotes and Sayings

The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid
for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau

I try to give to the poor people for love
what the rich could get for money.
No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds;
yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
- Mother Teresa

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich,
for the hopes of the instructed
are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
- Epictetus

Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike.
Each has their suffering.
Some suffer too much, others too little.
- The Buddha

I believe life's rich experiences need to be shared with others -
for me this is the way one builds knowledge.
- Pravs J

A man is rich in proportion to
the number of things he can afford to let alone.
- Henry David Thoreau

He who is contented is rich.
- Lao Tzu

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.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Guilt for being rich,
and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough
and you have to go and get shot or something.
- John Lennon

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer.
He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The rich are not born skeptical or cynical.
They are made that way by events, circumstances.
- Paul Getty

Even the rich are hungry for love,
for being cared for, for being wanted,
for having someone to call their own.
- Mother Teresa

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor,
it cannot save the few who are rich.
- John F. Kennedy

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Action is the real measure of intelligence.
- Napoleon Hill (author of the classic Think and Grow Rich)

If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values,
we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities,
and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric,
one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
- Margaret Mead

We are rich only through what we give,
and poor only through what we refuse.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us,
is a very nice thing...
you are talking about the Internet,
you are talking about cell phones,
you are talking about computers.
This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.
- Jimmy Carter

If you want to feel rich,
just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
- Anonymous

A free America... means just this:
individual freedom for all, rich or poor,
or else this system of government we call democracy
is only an expedient to enslave man
to the machine and make him like it.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Let my soul smile through my heart
and my heart smile through my eyes,
that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

The moment you become miserly you are closed
to the basic phenomenon of life: expansion, sharing.
The moment you start clinging to things,
you have missed the target.
Because things are not the target,
you, your innermost being, is the target -
not a beautiful house, but a beautiful you;
not much money, but a rich you;
not many things, but an open being,
available to millions of things.
- Osho

Man Quotes and Sayings

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits
and then complain that he's not the man she married?
- Barbra Streisand

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation
can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell

A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
- The Buddha

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
- Carl Jung

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon

I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln

It doesn't matter how long my hair is
or what color my skin is
or whether I'm a woman or a man.
- John Lennon

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
- Henry David Thoreau

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller

The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb

A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin

A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
- Anatole France

Revenge... is like a rolling stone,
which, when a man hath forced up a hill,
will return upon him with a greater violence,
and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
- Albert Schweitzer

The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The man form is higher than the angel form;
of all forms it is the highest.
Man is the highest being in creation,
because he aspires to freedom.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

Every man has his own courage,
and is betrayed because he seeks in himself
the courage of other persons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard

He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates

Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley

Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty;
it is its own reward.
Everything else is in God's hands.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus

Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain

Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy

Interdependence is and ought to be
as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency.
Man is a social being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion
upon morals, political, or religion
which he got otherwise than
through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde

No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather

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