My life has often been described as `from rags to riches` but in fact, the Ross`s were never raggedy.
- Diana RossGratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.
- Doris DayThe riches of the game are in the thrills, not the money.
- Ernie BanksWhen you are a second-generation success, you are provided for. And that certainly was a big opportunity. But you don`t have that `rags-to-riches story`, which is always a much more dramatic story to plot. Your success is not one that is as easily accepted by the people outside. Or they don`t really have an appreciation of what you have accomplished. As a producer, my successes came fairly early in my career; as an actor, they came much later. Winning the Academy Award for Wall Street (1987) really helped me to finally overcome that `second generation` thing. It`s hard for people, no matter how generous and gracious they are, to really allow you any slack. They say, `Oh it must have been hard to be Kirk Douglas` son,` but they don`t really want to accept it. You grow up in this business and all that means is that you don`t get the joy of succeeding. If you succeed, it`s expected. If you look around you can see that there are hardly any second-generation people that have succeeded at all. It`s a minefield of disasters, of broken careers and self-destruction out there. The public`s perception is that you didn`t have to do anything. So if you succeed, it`s just assumed. If you don`t get success, you`re an asshole like everybody else.
- Michael DouglasA man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.
- Richard BurtonEvery single frame has got something going on in the background; in many ways, it`s an embarrassment of riches. I guess some of the New York scenes, especially in the third act when Kong is back. Some of that rampage stuff, with the people running down the street and all the shop signs and all the neon that just goes on for miles. Those big aerial shots in New York that completely faithfully re-create New York at the time. That`s pretty special stuff.
- Andy SerkisThere is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.
- Billy GrahamRiches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
- Dick GregoryToday riches and honours have been lavished on me, but one gift has been lacking, the most important one of all, the only one that matters, the gift of youth.
- Knut HamsunTo be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
- AkhenatonIt`s an embarrassment of riches because you have directors who don`t better. You end up with so much stuff going on the screen that you don`t know where to look, and that`s what I consider self-indulgent.
- John DykstraRiches don`t make a man rich, they only make him busier.
- Christopher ColumbusThe greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.
- Benjamin DisraeliIf your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
- Rainer Maria RilkeMany of those who once were so passionately in love with Christ now run about pursuing their own interests. They`re burdened down with stress and problems, chasing after riches and the things of this world.
- David WilkersonRiches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life. The sin comes in the time and energy we spend in pursuing these things, at the expense of neglecting Christ.
- David WilkersonWith the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches, which in their eyes is never so complete as when they appear to possess those decisive marks of opulence which nobody can possess but themselves.
- Adam J. SmithWith the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
- Adam J. SmithRiches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.
- Aaron McFarlandI care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness; once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one.
- Abdel Bari AtwanRiches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one`s own merits.
- Abel EvansIn early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.
- Adam LevinRiches cover a multitude of woes.
- Adam SimpsonThe renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
- Adrian CooteThe greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
- Al EckertReal riches are the riches possessed inside.
- Al HarrisonWorldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none.
- Alan RodgerTo despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.
- Ales KotalikFame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
- Alexandre LeducKosovo is a small country but it also has a lot of riches that were granted to us by God.
- Alexis DupuyThe rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.
- Alle FisterA good name is rather to be chosen than riches.
- Allen ZarembergThe desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
- Allison HannaThe more riches you have, the more you can share. So I like to share everything that I have that`s of value.
- Ally BarnesChrist`s riches are unsearchable, and this doctrine of the gospel is the field this treasure is hidden in.
- Andrew C. von EschenbachMy heart, as all of yours, breaks when it sees how the government is robbing the country of its riches, how they sell out our national interests.
- Andrew HunterThe writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
- Andrew LaddI offer all the riches I`ve made out of the panchayat-enforced gang-rape to the president in return for justice.
- Anja ThiessenIt`s not a thing you can build up to slowly. It`s either riches or poverty.
- Ansarullah MawlavizadaBanks and riches are chains of gold, but still chains
- Anton SaginoWorldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.
- Avid MerrionWhy is it that, as we grow older, we are so reluctant to change? It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism is the desire to preserve the truths and standards of the past; its dangers, of which we are seldom aware, is that in preserving those values, we may miss the infinitely greater riches that lie in the future.
- Dale E. TurnerOrdinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
- Oscar WildeThe offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny
- Mark TwainAgriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own
- Samuel JohnsonFame and riches are fleeting. Stupidity is eternal
- Don Williams, JrA good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the `unsearchable riches of Christ` - are actually transported into personal lives upon the other.
- Harry Emerson FosdickFame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
- Horace Greeley