Famous quotes containing the words rich man, rich and/or man:
“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.”
—Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Matthew, 19:24.
“In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.”
—Diogenes of Sinope (c. 410–c. 320 B.C.)
“In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)