Diogenes Quotes

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

I am a capitalist—a rich businessman and most of you are not.

You are only as rich as where you come from, and Nigeria has a lot of poverty.

Poor people know poor people, and rich people know rich people. It is one of the few things La Rochefoucauld did not say, but then La Rochefoucauld never lived in the Bronx.

Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.

If you're rich you can buy books. If you're poor, you need a library.

Only the poor are handicapped by honor.

We talk of the enormous virtues of work, but it turns out that that is mostly for the poor. If you're rich enough or if you're a college professor, the virtue lies in leisure and the use you make of your leisure time.

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.

For all the chatter that Britain has moved beyond class, recent studies have found that it determines the life chances of British people more today than at any point since the Second World War... A child born into a rich family in Britain will almost certainly live and die rich, while a child born into a poor family will almost certainly live and die poor.

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

I wasn't born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.

When I was a child, I didn't fly - we couldn't afford to fly. Flying was for rich people.

Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, having suffered the privations of poverty, think of wealth as the mother of joy.

There's often an assumption you're more privileged if you belong to a family with people who have made a success.

Money doesn't buy class.

The rich make you famous; the poor make you a hero.

You can’t be rich, strong, and loved, particularly by those who are not rich or strong.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

I wasn't exactly born with a silver spoon in my mouth.

The poor have little; beggars, none; the rich, too much; enough, not one.

I'm not one of these people who thinks everyone born into privilege should wear sack cloth and ashes. But it's something I wrestle with. I know a lot of people who live below the poverty level and have for a long time and it makes them uneasy to think they'll have to interact with people from different economic levels. Everyone has some sort of load put on them, whatever the circumstances they're born into.

I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.