"I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal."
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"What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must."
"No one is ever too old, too rich, too poor, to pray."
"What drags down our entire economy is when there's an ever-widening chasm between the ultra-rich and everybody else."
"Some have too much, yet still do crave; I little have, and seek no more. They are but poor, though much they have, And I am rich with little store."
"....All drugs should be legal. War is wrong. The rich get richer. The poor get poorer. Thank you. I'll be here all week."
"Which can say more than this rich praise, that you alone are you?"
"I am quite sure that if we could but once approach the Most Holy Sacrament with great faith and love, it would suffice to make us rich. How much more so if we approach it often!"
"Riches seldom make their owners rich."
"It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods."
"No matter how rich you are, you cannot transport yourself to the future or the past."
"When you're rich, you don't have friends; you just have endless acquaintances."
"The way to become rich is to make money, not to save it."
"I drove a cab. But all the girls I knew when I was young who had to work - there were rich girls - but the ones who had to work were waitresses. Because you could always get shifts in a restaurant."
"The rich have a passion for bargains as lively as it is pointless."
"Good workemen are seldome rich."
"When a pirate grows rich enough, they make him a prince."
"It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money."
"If we're not going to tax the rich anymore, we're going to create class warfare."
"The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all--the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved."