I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.
Great wealth can make a man no happier than moderate means, unless he has the luck to continue in propsperity to the end. Many very rich men have been unfortunate, and many with a modest competence have had good luck. The former are better off than t...
We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were.
Not every happy person is rich, and, Not every rich person is happy.
Oh, man, why is this the life? Why is it? Why is one rich and the other poor? Why is one black and the other white?
Remembrance of things past is just for the rich. For the poor it only marks the faint traces on the path to death.
Beauty can make a woman rich, but if she relies solely on her looks to get by, she'll always remain under a man's thumb.
I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn.
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 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.
If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.
In my heart, I'm just a kid from the council houses. I can remember the old cottage and my dad coming round with the tin bath. I'm not a rich man.
I'm not a rich man, and Greg Lake is certainly not. I don't know how he can survive. I don't know how he can be that suicidal. But having said that, I'd love to be there to help Greg.
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty.
I could be the Greta Garbo of comedy, very secluded, but Garbo had a man who was beyond rich to support her.
Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.
My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
We understand why it is better to teach a starving man to fish, but a repertoire course is worse than handing a a fish to a starving man. Our students are not starving; if anything, they are drowning in a sea of information. So a survey course is mor...
