#rich man

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#everyone #happy #makes #man #mistake

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor. ↗

— William Temple

#abstinence #exercise #healthy #live #man

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. ↗

— Henry Home

#body #cannot #enjoy #exercise #ingredients

A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money. ↗

— Amiri Baraka

#man #me #money #other #people

I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was to be your own boss. My father built up his business, and he was by no means a rich man, but he figured out how to work four-and-a-half days a week. ↗

— Tony Shalhoub

#big #big family #boss #built #business

Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse. ↗

— Abu Bakr

#case #man #poor #poor man #pride

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

#consequences #destitute #evil #injurious #man

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 everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#anything #because #bores #down #else

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. ↗

— Jesus Christ

#camel #easier #enter #eye #go

A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#charity #difficult #fool #man #matter