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He was the only man I ever knew who could get money from the rich and votes from the poor with the promise to protect them from each other.
— Tommy Douglas
How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man! ... Midway from nothing to the Deity!
— Edward Young
The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
A rich man's lie has more validity than a poor man's truth in a materialistc world
— Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
Who was the fool, who the wise man, beggar or king? Whether poor or rich, all's the same in death.
— Jacoby Shaddix
A man is rich whose income is larger than his expenses, and he is poor if his expenses are greater than his income.
— Jean De La Bruyere
The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
— William Temple
Sometimes I think that all mankind exist but to be bought and sold: The rich man's paramour is gold, the poor man's goddess, gold, gold, gold.
— Ridgely Torrence
A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
— William Shenstone
Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.
— Alexander Pope
Every time thief steals, he steals from his own peace, from his own honour! No man is as poor as a rich thief!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Men are not rich or poor according to what they possess but to what they desire. The only rich man is he that with content enjoys a competence.
— Roger Chamberlain
The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht.
— G.K. Chesterton
Let the rich man rediscover the poor one; the free man the pisoner; and the resurrected man the corpse.
— Alexandre Dumas
many rich men and high dignitaries would willingly exchange their palaces for the poor man's cottage if they could only acquire his peace of heart.
— John Of Kronstadt
Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one.
— William Graham Sumner
It is very much easier for a rich man to invest and grow richer than for the poor man to begin investing at all. And this is also true of nations.
— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth
The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.
— Orison Swett Marden
No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Charity is a cold grey loveless thing. If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.
— Clement Attlee
A poor man celebrates the New Year once a year. A rich man celebrates each day. But the richest man celebrates every moment.
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Stop thinking about class, she'd say. Like a rich man telling a poor man to stop thinking about money.
— John Fowles
You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich.
— Abraham Lincoln
When you are a rich man you are proud to own a Rolls Royce and when you are a poor man you are proud to own a Renault.
— Eric Cantona
The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach,the rich man to get a stomach to his meat. — Benjamin Franklin
By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
— Democritus
Frugality makes a poor man rich.
— Seneca The Younger
Whether we are rich or poor, young or old, man or woman, straight or gay: all of us are called to our own brand of personal holiness.
— James Martin
A poor generous man is greatly praised.A stingy rich man is greatly despised. — Matshona Dhliwayo
In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man's dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, And order'd their estate.
— Cecil Frances Alexander
A rich man loves to work, a poor man loves to eat.
— Duong Thu Huong
When a poor man gives something, that is a sacrifice indeed. When a rich man gives something, it hardly rises to the same level.
— David Baldacci
It's something I've always kicked around, not doing the eBook but the Rich Man, Poor Man thing.
— Adam Carolla
One man pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.
— Solomon
Oh, man," said Jack. "Everyone was nice to us when we looked rich. Now it feels like the whole world's against us.
— Mary Pope Osborne
The only difference between a rich man and a poor man, is that the poor man suffers uncomfortably, while the rich man suffers comfortably.
— Swami Brahmananda
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money
— W.C. Fields
I never met a rich man who was happy, but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
No, not rich, he said. I am a poor man with money, not the same thing.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Or, what does a poor man have, a rich man need, and you would die if you ate it? Stuff
— R.J. Palacio
Nothing humbles a rich man better than a poor man that isn't willing to do 'anything' for money.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Where else but in America can a poor black man like Michael Jackson grow up to be a rich white woman?
— Red Buttons
In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave.
— Jean De La Bruyere
A rich man's war and a poor man's fight ...
— Shelby Foote
It is as necessary for a poor man to give away, as for a rich man. Many poor men are more devoted worshipers of Mammon than some rich men.
— George MacDonald
He that pines with hunger, is in little care how others shall be fed. The poor man is seldom studious to make his grandson rich.
— Samuel Johnson
The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.
— Publilius Syrus
In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.
— Honore De Balzac
The sight of an obese poor man - like that of a skinny rich man - is puzzling.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity.
— Douglas Coupland
When a rich man dies it is more complex than when a poor man dies. A rich man doesn't simply quit living. He quits being rich, too.
— Elliott Chaze
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
— Samuel Johnson
To live like a poor man is only fun when you are rich.
— Peter Ustinov
Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything.
— Bruce Springsteen
One who knew how to appropriate the true value of this world would be the poorest man in it. The poor rich man! all he has is whathe has bought.
— Henry David Thoreau
Your heart determines if you are rich or poor
— Sonya Withrow
A live broke man is 'luckier' than a dead rich man.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The rich man can afford to be happy and wise; the poor man is wiser still, for he understands sadness.
— William Henry Chase
The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor.
— Henry David Thoreau
In America, the rich man tries to pretend that the poor man is his equal in every respect but money, which is simply not true.
— Donna Tartt
To one who asked what was the proper time for lunch, he said, If a rich man, when you will; if a poor man, when you can.
— Diogenes Of Sinope
When golf used to be a rich man's sport, if you were poor you could not step foot on a course.
— Shia Labeouf
A thief, though rich, will continue to steal, but an honest man, though poor, will ever seek to pay his debts.
— John Andreas Widtsoe
A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who 'lives well.'
— Elbert Hubbard
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?
— Tony D'Souza
Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable.
— Archibald MacLeish
If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.
— William Prescott
