Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
Samuel Johnson

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
Samuel Johnson

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
Samuel Johnson

I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.
Tom Petty

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.
Wilbur Wright

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
Frank Herbert

You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.
Stephen Sondheim

Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.
Stephen Sondheim

We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.
Walter Lippmann

I don't like drum solos, to be honest with you, but if anybody ever told me he didn't like Buddy Rich I'd right away say go and see him, at least the once.
Charlie Watts

Hollywood people are filled with guilt: white guilt, liberal guilt, money guilt. They feel bad that they're so rich, they feel they don't work that much for all that money - and they don't, for the amount of money they make.
Drew Carey

Even when people are rich and successful on TV shows, there's always some trouble - you have to poke holes in them, throw them out of a job, put a pie in the face.
Drew Carey

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.
Anacharsis

I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.
Tre Cool

When you're rich and famous you are the dominant force in a relationship, even if you try hard not to be. I've talked of sacrificing everything for Fleetwood Mac, but I realize now that it is simply the only thing I've ever wanted to do.
Stevie Nicks

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.
Alan Alda

You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich.
Robert Duvall

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
Samuel Butler

The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.
Lord Chesterfield

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.
Geoffrey Chaucer