Famous quotes containing the word rich:
“In a town-meeting, the great secret of political science was uncovered, and the problem solved, how to give every individual his fair weight in the government, without any disorder from numbers. In a town-meeting, the roots of society were reached. Here the rich gave counsel, but the poor also; and moreover, the just and the unjust.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“And turns the woe of Night,
By its own craft, to a more rich delight.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)