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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
Sholom Aleichem

Life, Wise, Fool

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
Mother Teresa

Love, Someone, Wanted

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John F. Kennedy

Society, Help, Cannot

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
Thomas Jefferson

Experience, Poor, General

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin Franklin

Wise, Powerful, Everyone

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Religion, Poor, Keeps

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
Mother Teresa

Love, Money, God

No legacy is so rich as honesty.
William Shakespeare

Honesty, Legacy

I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.
Dalai Lama

History, Long, Culture

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Oscar Wilde

Past, Enough, Buy

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
Oscar Wilde

Money, Nothing, Poor

The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich.
P. J. O'Rourke

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Life, May, Poor

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.
William Shakespeare

Enough, Poor, Content

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
Benjamin Franklin

Men, Poor, Makes

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
Mahatma Gandhi

Faith, Experience, Effort

Think and grow rich.
Napoleon Hill

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
Aristotle

Power, Democracy, Poor

The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.
Warren Buffett

Money, Hope, Down

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
Epictetus

Rather, Leave, Ignorant

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
George Bernard Shaw

Time, Poor, Poverty

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.
Warren Buffett

Knew, Minute, Doubted

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Henry David Thoreau

Alone, Number, Afford

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
Benjamin Franklin

Sick, Wealth, Impotence

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.
Muhammad Ali

Give, Wish, Away

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin Franklin

Nobody, Content

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.
Benjamin Franklin

Portion, Rejoices

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Give, Through, Poor

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Needs, Consumer, Expensive

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.
John Lennon

Love, Peace, Thinking

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