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I am wealthy in my friends.

William Shakespeare

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Benjamin Franklin

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

Suddenly the already wealthy were reaping all the benefits. While other stories held our attention, that trend continued for 30 years.

James Lardner

NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life.

Ambrose Bierce

The collection that they built for their home is really representative of a wealthy American family in the early 20th century.

Ware Petznick

If we ever needed more of a reason not to do Social Security reform, this is it, because of the cost required. It's going to be a question of priorities, a question of whether Republicans are going to want to stand on the Senate floor and support more tax cuts for the wealthy.

Jim Manley

The drugs are free or inexpensive, but distribution on this scale in rural villages and poor areas is a big, expensive job. Donations from foundations and wealthy countries helped fund the distribution in Egypt, and more of that same support is needed for campaigns in other countries.

Gary Weil

He could have been a much more wealthy person had he not been in public service.

Carroll Padgett

I think it's not fashionable to talk in class terms any more, although Gore's done a bit of that when he talks about targeting the wealthy, ... It will be interesting to see how that plays, because we've fooled ourselves into thinking ours is a classless society. And, of course, it isn't.

Paul Beck

Housing prices are going up because the wealthy want to live along the coast. That's who's driving prices up.

Christopher Thornberg

There is a clear choice, whether we invest in our kids or vote to give more tax giveaways to wealthy folks.

Bill Jordan

I'd probably have to work at some job. I have always worked. To not have a job and be the first lady, that is a bit much to ask. If we did it that way, then all we would get is wealthy people in office.

Assemblywoman Dawn Gibbons

I would support a recall of the mayor. I'm really troubled when a man talks about sunshine and hatches deals in back rooms. I'm very concerned that the process is being manipulated by some very wealthy people.

Paul Spiegelman

That's what a lot of wealthy and not-so-wealthy parents are doing, because they want their kids to be the best.

Peter Marino

People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.

Jerry Lewis

There is a very pervasive misunderstanding that chronic diseases affect only wealthy men in wealthy countries.

Robert Beaglehole

Our parents cannot afford the resources wealthy parents have such as books, magazine and newspaper subscriptions, computers or educational games.

Diane Terry

The American Muslim community is wealthy, educated and was recruited here to become doctors and scientists. In Europe you have immigrants who left war-torn countries and they still have legal second-class status in European countries.

Vincent Biondo

We need to get Americans working again. We're not going to do that with tax cuts for the wealthy. We need to invest in middle America.

Stephanie Cutter

In Maine, it began as a historical thing. You have portraits of Longfellow and Chamberlain, then you had the wealthy people who could afford it.

Carl Little

As somebody who grew up next to a third-world country, I have seen what is going to happen to the future of America if we do not get serious about the immigration issue. If you want to have a nation of a few wealthy people and massive amounts of poor, uneducated people, you can go south to that.

Brian Bilbray

The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually became wealthy clearly reveals that their "luck" arose from.

Srully Blotnick

The seller said that you can be pretty sure that the property was a very prosperous farm to have such a great barn there. The fact that the posts are oak and the rest is white pine is also very unusual and points to a wealthy landowner.

Linda Connolly

In an ideal world, the governor of Texas should denounce the shenanigans of Tom DeLay and his twisted, unethical schemes. But Rick Perry is too weak and too dependent on the wealthy, powerful and ruthless special interests that both he and DeLay work for.

Bob Gammage

[HOT SECTORS. As a stock-picker, he likes Japanese banks, brokerages, and insurance companies.] Financials are a good way for investors to participate in a restructured and reflated Japan, ... There's a lot of potential for growth here. Japanese consumers are one of the most underserved communities of wealthy people on the planet.

Mark Headley

Naples is a very deep, very liquid, very wealthy market. And in Naples we tend to come out of this a little faster than they do nationally. And I see in Naples a two year period of correction.

Phil Mccabe

It is the first technology that we can have that can simultaneously make people more wealthy while reducing the need for industrial production.

Adrian Bowyer

Originally electric lights, when they were extremely expensive, were really only for the very wealthy. In fact the first home to be lit successfully was JP Morgan's home. And then the height of fashion was to have bare light bulbs shining.

Sarah Henry

Exclusivity and uniqueness are most critical to wealthy consumers. Having too many stores can take away from exclusivity.

Milton Pedraza

Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.

C. Wright Mills

I sure don't want to take money away from the University of Texas; any subsidy for a university is good. But from an equity standpoint, it isn't fair that wealthy people can treat their personal entertainment expenses as a charitable donation.

Michael Granof

Achieving greater competition in this space is a very important policy matter for the U.S. government. The government has to focus on getting a lower cost infrastructure for broadband so that less wealthy Americans who obviously desire broadband can afford it.

Joe Nordgaard

Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.

Juvenal

What interested me is that it is working-class and some middle-class housing, ... Typically one finds ornate homes of the wealthy [as landmarks].

Joseph Butler

We run the risk of (wealthy residents) leaving the state or changing their behavior to avoid this tax.

Jon Coupal

At its most base level, the sheer wealth of these candidates shows that representative democracy in California isn't representative at all. These are wealthy, white individuals and that makes it that much harder for them to represent all of California's diversity.

Ned Wigglesworth

The vast majority of tax cuts (under Bush) went to special interests, select corporations, and our most privileged and wealthy citizens. They gave the wealthy and most powerful the vast majority of your tax breaks and gave everyone else a few crumbs and told them they've been to the party.

Dan Gelber

It's a ton of money. And the amount of money that was spent shows just how important it is for wealthy interests in California to get policies favorable to them passed, both business and labor.

Ned Wigglesworth

For the fifth year in a row, the Bush budget cuts city core services to pay for wealthy tax breaks. And once again, the mayor's requests were not funded.

Anthony Weiner

Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.

James Thurber

The poetry of heroism appeals irresitably to those who don't go to a war, and even more so to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy.

Louis Ferdinand Celine

She is so cold and so hard and so neurotic because of what she's done. She's immensely wealthy - making profits of a Meryl-Made line of clothing and so forth. But she is so deeply compromised because of all of this.

Peter Weir

Syria can't be important unless it plays its regional cards. This country is not wealthy and it doesn't have enough oil to be influential. We are playing the role of a bad student at school. If you don't make trouble, no one will pay attention to you.

Marwan Kabalan

I think this is a very wealthy country.

Lakpa Sherpa

The wealthy, time-strapped consumers are looking pretty good right now.

Carrie Johnson

Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.

Dave Barry

Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.

Angela Davis

He was acutely aware of market value and what he felt was a fair price. He could have bought anything he wanted. He was wealthy enough, but he often passed on things if he felt they were overpriced.

Richard Rand

What's missing here are wealthy taxpayers like myself. The people who come here to work are the brave ones, the entrepreneurs. Those are the kind of people we want in America.

Art Patterson

We look forward to a spirited Democratic primary between two self-funding, wealthy liberals.

Richard Wadhams

These people work 15 hours a day, and they're fabulously wealthy. The reason is that what drives them is the development of the technology and the accomplishment of the applications in the marketplace, not just the wealth.

Regis Mckenna

Wealthy companies set new records in political contributions to buy this veto. Schwarzenegger bends whichever the way the corporate winds blow. Just a few weeks ago, the Restaurant Association, a major opponent of the bill, hosted a fund-raiser for Schwarzenegger in Los Angeles. Coincidence? I don't think so.

Art Pulaski

It's interesting how quickly it fell out of favor, ... The children of the older families didn't want to live there, and neither did the new wealthy families. By 1910, many of the houses had been converted to rooming houses or factories.

Tim Samuelson

Before you were wealthy, life had limitations. Suddenly you have few limitations. Before, snowboarding in the Alps was a wish. Now you can afford it. But the wife may decide she doesn't want to do it.

Denise Knowles

He certainly has some assets. And even though he is the only son of a very wealthy mother, he claims not to have any other assets. We don't believe that.

Brian Lewis

I find it interesting that such a wealthy person could be so down to earth.

Kyle Cipperley

In the days after 9/11, we heard innumerable reprises of the lazy leftist trope 'poverty breeds terrorism.' But the Arab world is wealthy. It suffers, as David Pryce-Jones has said, from intellectual poverty.

Mark Steyn

People who are extremely wealthy can approach global banks for help. Those in the middle income category can directly approach agents abroad or local financial planners.

Gaurav Mashruwala

While our real estate allocations may have dropped from 10 percent down to 7, the difference was often made up by increasing offshore real estate holdings. Of course, that only makes sense for the most wealthy clients, because for smaller ones it's not worthwhile to split assets into 2 percent and 3 percent allocations.

Glenn Frank

The university isn't infinitely wealthy, but (the faculty-salary issue) just hasn't been a priority. Other things have mattered more.

David Weinstein

When I went to the meeting, I saw white people, black people, people who weren't well-to-do and the wealthy. And they were all voicing their opinions.

Marissa Davis

The Palms caters to that unique, California customer who is young, wealthy, and can afford to play enough to warrant that incentive.

Andrew Zarnett

We are on track to gather the signatures we need, as well as a wealthy buffer because some signatures will not be valid.

Laura Stromberg

We know wealthy Saudis are funding terror. With higher oil prices, they just have more money to do so.

Rachel Bronson

Nowadays, when you turn 65 you have lots of years to be productive. Those of us who aren't independently wealthy, we really do need to continue to work and to stay healthy.

Phyllis Newman

I said to Mr. Bowles, 'That would be like me saying to you that the only reason that you were an ardent supporter of fast track is because you're a very wealthy man with a very large stock portfolio and you're making money, tons of money, because of these trade policies.

Peter Defazio

Cell phones, to me, are a joke. When we grew up we had a party line for six homes, meaning you had to wait for everyone else from the other five homes to be off the line before you could make a call. You know what? Society seemed to get along fine. When you got your own telephone land line, it was like you were a wealthy person.

Charles Gallagher

We aren't able to give as much to people and we aren't as wealthy as we once were, ... This is not a popularity contest and we have to do something.

Charles Gillespie

[The] ideal client is the very wealthy man in very great trouble.

John Sterling

[Some of the lands held by Muslims were wealthy. Tariq Ali, the author of] The Book of Saladin, ... Nothing is ever motivated purely by religion or ideology. They wanted the money. It was as simple as that.

Godfrey Of Bouillon

You don't need to make a bad deal, make some foreign investors wealthy and have no guarantees.

Pat Bauer

An element of it is investment driven but our research has found that most of it is from incredibly wealthy people who have done their homework and have become incredibly sophisticated buyers in a short space of time.

Guy Bennett

He's a wealthy man. He doesn't need politics. He doesn't need people to wine and dine him, ... I'm not ashamed to say it's never affected my relationship with him.

Frank Rizzo

The ecological footprint allows us to measure the pressure on resources of any population. Currently there is about a four-fold disparity between the world's wealthy and poor nations.

Jonathan Loh

I am not a wealthy man. Yes, I am privileged, I do own a lakefront home. But I'd like to know where this mitigation fee comes from. I cannot afford it.

John Phillips

More wealthy people will be out in the market because baby boomers will start to retire in 2007, and that's a chance for us. We are paying close attention to how the luxury market in Japan develops.

Itaru Koeda

You are a part of my family if you watch and listen to Healthy, Wealthy and Wise.

Frank Jordan

To be healthy, wealthy, happy and successful in any and all areas of your life you need to be aware that you need to think healthy, wealthy, happy and successful thoughts twenty four hours a day and cancel all negative, destructive, fearful and unhappy thoughts. These two types of thought cannot coexist if you want to share in the abundance that surrounds us all.

Sidney Madwed

What we see in other parts of the world is not all that uncommon -- kidnapping of wealthy individuals for ransom. And in Canada and the United States we have been relatively immune from that kind of problem.

Neil Boyd

That was the first time there was this incredible media hype around a murder. Was it murder? Was it an accident? Everyone knew he was a boy trying to better himself. And everyone knew there was a wealthy girl involved.

Francesca Zambello

I'm convinced that unless you have some public financing of elections, you are never going to remove the power of wealthy interests over elected officials.

Dick Murphy

We don't want people to think they have to put on pearls and furs to see opera. We want people to feel comfortable and have an engaging experience. We want them to be challenged by the material, but not by the economics. Opera is not just for the wealthy.

Lori Zook

Perry appears to have an affirmative-action program for wealthy donors.

Andrew Wheat

At its height, it drew people from all classes, wealthy and poor, Hispanics, blacks, Jews — you name it, everybody came. Whole churches collapsed and joined it. There was a force there, it was almost supernatural. People said they could feel it in the air from about three blocks away.

Vinson Synan

If you're just talking to rich people, you're probably not going to hear a lot about health care for the poor. But then again, they're probably not talking too much policy at these events. Most of the wealthy people who attend know the rules. They're not supposed to talk policy or ask for things. That doesn't mean they can't call up later on when they have a problem.

Bob Stern

The president is destroying the fabric of America with a combined policy of war, tax cuts for the wealthy and reductions in spending for domestic needs.

Charles Rangel

The richest man in the world got wealthy even though his company sells almost nothing tangible.

John Pratt

Nearly every rescued person, temporary resident of the Superdome, looter or loiterer on the high ground of the freeway I saw on TV was African-American. And from the look of it, they weren't wealthy residents of the Garden District. This storm appears to have hurt blacks more directly than whites, but the broadcasters scarcely mentioned that fact.

Jack Shafer

What I don't like about things like that is that for a wealthy person, the fine is a mere inconvenience. For the poor person, it's a major punishment.

Michael Granof

We don't know very much about her other than she's big and strong, ... She's very healthy and we're hoping she's going to make us wealthy.

Patrick Biancone

This is happening to businesses all over Mandeville. I don't see how any business owner can survive unless they are independently wealthy.

Lori Bennett

In Russia there is great interethnic hatred, class hatred - I mean hatred for wealthy people - that is stirred up by official propaganda. That is why there can be no 'velvet' solution, as there was, for example, in Georgia or Ukraine.

Boris Nemtsov

We're not wealthy people in the big scheme of things in Reno. I do think a lot of people could achieve this.

Mary Cablk

Not only will these tax cuts - mainly for the super wealthy and big corporations - wipe out the savings from the budget cuts, it will actually balloon our deficit even further.

Diane Farrell

I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves.

Robertson Davies

It was based on the idea that the Jews are wealthy and that if the boy doesn't pay, the community will.

Michel Wieviorka

Neither of us has wealthy parents who are going to leave us a nest egg.

Sean Dolan

We've gone from a tourist economy to a second-home service economy. No one can afford to live here anymore but the very wealthy people.

Mickey Garcia

They were wealthy and there have to be more.

Ann Thompson

When so-called celebrities come across here making their pronouncements - wealthy people telling folks how they should earn their living - well, we're outraged. We don't feel we need to justify the hunt to anyone.

Phil Jenkins

Clearly people feel less wealthy and people are going to focus on what happens to the direction of interest rates. Over the next couple of weeks, as the election subsides attention is going to shift to (Federal Reserve Chairman) Alan Greenspan.

Gregg Hymowitz

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Barry Biffle

The only people who are actually paying the taxes are new home buyers. A lot of the wealthy people are not paying the taxes they should be paying, and a lot of the middle-class people are actually bearing the tax burden.

Bill Aaron

The bill weakens state and federal environmental standards ... and gives a break to wealthy oil companies while doing little or nothing to affect oil prices.

Sherwood Boehlert

For such a wealthy country, and one where there is such innovation, the tertiary enrolment rate in 2003 was 48.7 per cent. Compare that with Finland, which was 87.5 per cent. This is definitely something that should be addressed.

Jennifer Blanke

I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.

Andrew Young

Ritz-Carlton had the highest number of wealthy consumers reporting stays in the past 18 months (26.9%), with Four Seasons second (21.6 %). However, Mandarin Oriental, with only 5.1% reported stays, received the highest Customer Experience Index score, 89, edging out Ritz-Carlton and Four Seasons, both at 87.

Milton Pedraza

When the wealthy already pay the lion's share, the wealthy will get the lion's share of the relief. That's just the way it is.

Byron Schlomach

Wealthy playboys and flappers just weren't funny anymore, ... So (dad) got them married, and (Dagwood) was disowned by his millionaire daddy. When they got into the kitchen and started having kids, it took off like a rocket.

Dean Young

People think. .. 'You've got all these wealthy people, the real estate prices are soaring, you've got the film festival. What could be wrong?' ... 9/11 just put a hammer to it. The business levels have by and large not returned to where they were.

Richard Corman

You just don't have to think about it too much because almost everybody is impoverished. Believe me, the wealthy citizens of New Orleans evacuated.

Jack Levin

As the database grows, we will be able to furnish advisors with peer-group benchmarks, so they can provide evidence-based advice. The wealthy don't fill out surveys.

Christopher Snyder

As nurses, we're on the front lines of health care. We know how important it is that everyone have access to the best medical technology and cures, not just a wealthy few.

Deborah Burger

Wealthy people with means should be required to pay something on debts and not be able to walk away from them.

Wayne Abernathy

The president is committed to making tax cuts for the richest one percent permanent. There are trade-offs for being so generous to those who are so wealthy. Every dollar that is given to millionaires is a dollar that will be cut in our communities.

Emanuel Cleaver

Only a few eccentric, wealthy people will experience space tourism prior to 2020. It (2020) may be a little too soon.

Eileen Kennedy

It was all about transfer of wealth from the majority of Texans to the wealthy. It almost happened, but Democrats and some Republicans stood up.

Ed Sills

He didn't hope to be an official or a wealthy man, but only hoped to do some academic studies, read and write some books, and live a tranquil and comfortable life.

Zhang Wen