Daniel Defoe Quotes

He that is rich will not be called a fool.

But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor - as long as you've got money.

My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'.

I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor.

To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.

We didn't grow up rich people.

I'd rather be smart and poor than rich and dumb.

It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.

You the rich are no whit more attractive or capable than you who were poor and struggling a few years back. But when before you plodded lonely and unappreciated, now the glamour of the motor and the smart apartment surrounds you with a tangible glory. It is amazing how many friends look you up, call you by name, and extol you, who were once a little timid, or indifferent, or utterly neglectful in your time of dire poverty. One has true friends when one is poor and no riches can be greater than that. They are not so obvious when one is rich.

In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.

If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth; but, if poor, it is not quite so easy to conceal our poverty. We shall find that it is less difficult to hide a thousand guineas, than one hole in our coat.

In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.

Good workmen are seldom rich.

But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.

One of the Great Rules of Economics According to John Green If you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart to get rich.

Niggas wit no money act like money isn't everything.

Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: But with poverty everything becomes frightful.

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.

When asked what was the proper time for supper: If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.

The accumulation of wealth is a process which is of itself morally neutral. True, as Christianity teaches, riches bring temptations. But then so does poverty.

If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.

I love rich people. Any time I needed a job, I went to a rich person. I like poor people, but they never had a job for me.