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

The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.
Luc de Clapier

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

We weren't wealthy but we definitely weren't poor. We were incredibly rich because there was a wonderful community in Shepherd's Bush, where I grew up. All my friends were into villainy and crime.
Roger Daltrey

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
Herodotus

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
Evelyn Waugh

When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
Gwendolyn Brooks

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

Have you ever seen a candidate talking to a rich person on television?
Art Buchwald

Badges mean nothing in themselves, but they mark a certain achievement and they are a link between the rich and the poor. For when one girl sees a badge on a sister Scout's arm, if that girl has won the same badge, it at once awakens an interest and sympathy between them.
Juliette G. Low

Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
Walter Annenberg

If you aren't rich you should always look useful.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.
Theodor Adorno

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.
Joan Collins

Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.
Joan Collins

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

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

If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.
Vaclav Havel