Zitat des Tages über Reicher Mann / Rich Man:
I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.
The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.
One rich Man hath Lands, not only more than he can manage, but so much, that letting them out to others, he is supplied with a large over-plus, so needs no farther care.
I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.
The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.
In my heart, I'm just a kid from the council houses. I can remember the old cottage and my dad coming round with the tin bath. I'm not a rich man.
The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
I heard someone say that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to get into heaven. I decided to sculpt camels in a needle.
Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one.
The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.
I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was to be your own boss. My father built up his business, and he was by no means a rich man, but he figured out how to work four-and-a-half days a week.
There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.
The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty.
A rich man can afford to be generous to many.
Nobody wants to make me a rich man. In fact, most people want to make me a very poor man. I can guarantee some people fantasize at night about how poor they can make me.
I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.
Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.
I'm a rich man, but I don't want to be a miser.
I like football, but I think this is a very personal matter. I don't see any negatives for some Russian rich man to buy a football club.
A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.
If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.
I have written some poetry and two prose books about baseball, but if I had been a rich man, I probably would not have written many of the magazine essays that I have had to do. But, needing to write magazine essays to support myself, I looked to things that I cared about and wanted to write about, and certainly baseball was one of them.
I'm not a rich man, and Greg Lake is certainly not. I don't know how he can survive. I don't know how he can be that suicidal. But having said that, I'd love to be there to help Greg.
A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.
I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.
My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
I was attracted to opera when I was 15 or 16. A very rich man in England bankrupted himself to put on a lot of opera during the war, but he converted a lot of people, myself included, in the process.
If I had been thinking business since I was 21, I'd be a rich man right now.