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“High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit rais'd To that bad eminence.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Base wealth preferring to eternal praise.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.”
Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774) said by 1774 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish or may fade,-- A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied.”
Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774) said by 1774 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.”
William Cowper (1731–1800) said by 1800 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“No one goes to Hades with all his immense wealth.”
Theognis (570–490 BC) said by 490 BC at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Have in readiness this saying of Solon, "But we will not give up our virtue in exchange for their wealth.”
Plutarch (40–120) said by 120 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Lampis, the sea commander, being asked how he got his wealth, answered, "My greatest estate I gained easily enough, but the smaller slowly and with much labour.”
Plutarch (40–120) said by 120 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“health is wealth”
English proverb wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“health is your first wealth”
English proverb wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.”
Sarah Bernhardt (1844–1923) said by 1923 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Madam Sarah (1966) by Cornelia Otis Skinner, p. xvi
“He was a man (then boldly dare to say) In whose rich soul the virtues well did suit, In whom so mix’d the elements all lay, That none to one could sovereignty impute, As all did govern yet all did obey; He of a temper was so absolute, As that it seemed when Nature him began, She meant to show all, that might be in man.”
Michael Drayton (1563–1631) said by 1631 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I saw a fly within a bead Of amber cleanly burièd; The urn was little, but the room More rich than Cleopatra's tomb.”
Robert Herrick (poet) first seen 1648 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 817. "The Amber Bead" (pub. c. 1648)
“This was your butterfly, you see— His fine wings made him vain: The caterpillars crawl, but he Passed them in rich disdain.— My pretty boy says, “Let him be Only a worm again!”
Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (1836–1919) first seen 1892 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: After Wings (1892).
“You have prayed to these priests -- they have answered you with death. You have shed your tears at the feet of these kings -- they have fed upon your flesh. You have clutched the garments of these rich men -- they have quenched their thirst with your blood … NOW THE DAY OF PRAYERS AND TEARS HAS PASSED. THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT HAS COME.”
George Lippard (1822–1854) first seen 1851 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Adonai, the pilgrim of eternity, 86 (1851)
“Many years before, I had left a beautiful country and a rich nation and I returned to that country six years later to find it fundamentally changed and in a state of upheaval, and in great spiritual and material need.”
Fritz Sauckel (1894–1946) said by 1946 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in "Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal" - Nuremberg, Germany - 1948.
“Another magazine wanted the Long Lost Hills in digest form. A hundred dollars. I was rich again. A time for amends, for righting the past. I sent my mother five dollars.”
John Fante (1909–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This is senseless cruelty. It must stop forthwith... I am told that people kill albinos and chop their body parts, including fingers, believing they can get rich when mining or fishing.”
Jakaya Kikwete (born 1950) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: When ordering a crackdown on witchdoctors, 2008-04-03
“Even in his palmiest days there were good friends who could stand only limited stretches of the Lambert barrage of ideas, jokes, fantasy, quotations, apt instances, things that had struck him as he walked through London, not because these lacked quality, on the contrary because the mixture was after a while altogether too rich.”
Constant Lambert (1905–1951) said by 1951 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Anthony Powell Messengers of Day (1978) p. 60.
“'There is a major difference between you and me,' I told him. 'Yes, I am rich. But you are wealthy. And that is why you can buy such (expensive jewelry (for your wife and why I cannot.'”
Akio Morita (1921–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But if I could make just one small positive suggestion. Everybody knows that Saudi Arabia is very rich in certain mineral deposits — notably of course, sand. Oh my goodness, it's got so much sand, it could export the stuff. Or, even better, it could import a load of water and cement, mix itself into a giant block of concrete, and do us all a huge favour.”
Pat Condell (born 1949) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Why are we friends with Saudi Arabia?" (14 May 2007)
“I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.”
Edward Moore (1712–1757) said by 1757 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A Buddha vows to carry out a struggle that can lead the people and the age to enlightenment. The strength of this vow causes the Buddha's enlightenment to mature into rich wisdom.”
Daisaku Ikeda (1928–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or a knife, and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of the rich and stab or shoot the owners as they come out. Let us kill them without mercy, and let it be a war of extermination.”
Lucy Parsons (1851–1942) first seen 1885 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement appearing in the Chicago Tribune in 1885, as quoted in "What’s Missing From Black History Month" by Jon Hochshartner in The Red Phoenix (10 February 2012)
“There is no foundational mathematical or physical reason the relationship between Pythagorean and tempered western music should exist. It just does. The rich flexibility of the tempered scale and the … bountiful archives of western music are a testimonial to this wonderful coincidence provided by nature.”
Robert J. Marks II (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you bail out every investment bank that gets in trouble, that’s not capitalism, that’s socialism for the rich.”
Jim Rogers (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: 占·羅傑斯 (zh)
“Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers.”
Peter Greenaway (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Film is such an extraordinary rich medium which can handle so many different modes of operation, combining together in the same place all these extraordinary disciplines which may be executed in their own right -- music, writing, picture making of all kinds, and I often feel that some filmmakers make films with one eye closed and two hands tied behind their backs.”
Peter Greenaway (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Many mellow Cydonian suckets Sweet apples, anthosmial, divine, From the ruby-rimmed beryline buckets Star-gemmed, lily-shaped, hyaline; Like the sweet golden goblet found growing On the wild emerald cucumber-tree, Rich, brilliant, like chrysophrase glowing Was my beautiful Rosalie Lee.”
Thomas Holley Chivers (1809–1858) said by 1858 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am firmly convinced, as I have already said, that to effect any great social improvement, it is sympathy rather than self-interest, the sense of duty rather than the desire for self-advancement, that must be appealed to. Envy is akin to admiration, and it is the admiration that the rich and powerful excite which secures the perpetuation of aristocracies.”
Henry George (1839–1897) said by 1897 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The progressive stack is basically a measure of how much you aren’t like, say, James Watt, the developer of the modern steam engine, the key invention of the Industrial Revolution. Watt was white, male, Protestant, straight, rich, mechanically skilled, and a scientific genius, so you’d better not be.”
Steve Sailer (born 1958) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Unhappiness Explosion, Taki's Magazine, December 19, 2018
“In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.”
Simon Hoggart (1946–2014) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: America: A User's Guide (London: Collins, 1990), ch. 1, p. 33
“In Russia, Putin's enemies are not allowed to have a private life. We know all about what they do in the bedroom. But no one knows simple facts about Vladimir Putin. How many kids has he got? With whom? And are they by any chance extraordinarily rich?”
John Sweeney (journalist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy. Celebrity doesn’t have anything to do with art or craft. It’s about being rich and thinking that you’re better than everybody else.”
Joseph Gordon-Levitt (born 1981) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The New York Times, March 25, 2007.
“The thirst to know and understand— A large and liberal discontent: These are the goods in life's rich hand, The things that are more excellent.”
William Watson (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I consider a good reputation is a great part of the human happiness. Some people, if they are very, very rich can permit themselves certain negligence to their reputations.”
Aristotle Onassis (1906–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Peter Evans, Ari: Life and Times of Aristotle Socrates Onassis, (1978) (p. 73 in the 1986 Summit Books edition)
“If I should ever by chance grow rich I'll buy Codham, Cockridden, and Childerditch, Roses, Pyrgo, and Lapwater, And let them all to my eldest daughter.”
Edward Thomas (poet) first seen 1920 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: If I Should Ever By Chance", line 1, cited from Collected Poems (London: Selwyn & Blount, 1920), p. 19.
“Lampard......Drogba wanting it through the middle....Brilliant pass....Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant. Sheer quality, the delivery from Lampard. Drogba's rich vain in goal scoring form continues.”
Jonathan Pearce (born 1959) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Didier Drogba's exquisite goal against Manchester City at Stamford Bridge in October 2007.
“And teachers will be promoted from being the deliverers of facts to being being guides - guiding their peoples through rich and valued experiences offered by the computer.”
Owain Owain (1929–1993) first seen 1969 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 'Y Cymro' (Welsh weekly newspaper), 23/07/1969
“It is a place rich in natural resources, having everything we need for national defense, a crucial place for the empire's self-reliance. The place is crucial too for our wars with China, Russia, and the U.S.”
Seishirō Itagaki (1885–1948) first seen 1931 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: About sending troops to China's northeast. March 1931, from speech entitled "Manchuria and Mongolia from the Military Point of View". Quoted in "China in the World Anti-Fascist War" by Peng Xunhou - Page 23 - 2005.
“The greatest credit for the evening's success must be given to the rich-voiced Juozapaitis as Giovanni, and bass-baritone Stefano de Peppo as… Leporello.”
Vytautas Juozapaitis (born 1963) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Boston Herald (September 25, 2003)
“So Chike’s adventure on the River Niger brought him close to danger and then rewarded him with good fortune. It also exposed Mr. Peter Nwaba, the rich but miserly trader. For it was he who had led the other thieves.”
Chinua Achebe (1930–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Is that actually my voice, singing in The Heavenly Body and My Favorite Spy? You bet it is! You'd be surprised how well you can sing when you're rich!”
Hedy Lamarr (1914–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“With their tinted windows up, the cars of the rich go like dark eggs down the roads of Delhi. Every now and then an egg will crack open—a woman’s hand, dazzling with gold bangles, stretches out an open window, flings an empty mineral water bottle onto the road—and then the window goes up, and the egg is resealed.”
Aravind Adiga (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All around us there are tangible evidences of the industrial activity of our people and the growth and development of our State, and with national legislation not unfavorable to us, the future of Oregon is full of promise of a rich inheritance to its inhabitants.”
William Paine Lord (1838–1911) first seen 1895 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: William Paine Lord (1895). Governor William P. Lord - Inaugural Address, 1895. Oregon State Archives, Oregon Secretary of State. Source: Biennial Report of the Secretary of State of the State of Oregon, Messages and Doc…
“You and your ancestors treated the world like a fucking great toilet bowl. You shat in it and boasted about the mess you’d made. And now it’s full and overflowing, and you’re fat and happy and black kids are going crazy to keep you rich. Goodbye!”
John Brunner (1934–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Cheerfulness, in most cheerful people, is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.”
Edwin Percy Whipple (1819–1886) said by 1886 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The suffering in the world is due to our living on a planet polluted by sin - not God's hatred or neglect. Humans choose to murder when God gave us the intellect to cure disease. Humans choose to pollute when God gave us a pure planet rich in every resource we need.”
Ray Comfort (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Although my own previous enthusiasm has been for syntactically rich languages like the Algol family, I now see clearly and concretely the force of Minsky's 1970 Turing lecture, in which he argued that Lisp's uniformity of structure and power of self reference gave the programmer capabilities whose content was well worth the sacrifice of visual form.”
Robert W. Floyd (1936–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“. . . while we must not thrust beliefs on people, belaboring their minds to try to make them accept orthodoxy, we may set these same beliefs before people, showing them the rich truth which we have found and which they may come to receive as their questing mind develops and grows.”
Leslie Weatherhead (1893–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source