Famous quotes containing the words rich and/or man:
“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)
“Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)