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It isn't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.


Josh Billings

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It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.
JOSH BILLINGS There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. -Josh Billings.
JOSH BILLINGS To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It is true that we have such a rich budget because we want to try as much as possible to qualify Gha...
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P. J. O'ROURKE It's easier to get rich than it is to explain not getting rich.
E JAMES ROHN It's easier to get rich than it is to explain not getting rich.
E. JAMES ROHN Before praising a person for his rags to rich story, it is always more important to know HOW than to...
ANUJ SOMANY Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
SARA SHEPARD This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS How to get it, I annoy you???
You are not interested???

What's the idea???
DEYTH BANGER People see what they want to see
SUSAN BETH PFEFFER To the poor some businesses are menial,but to the rich all businesses are rich,so long as it serves ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A rich man doesn't need to tell you he's rich.
NEIL STRAUSS Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be...
SANDRA K. COOK It took me a while to approach it. It was so rich; it was like too much candy.
HUGH WILLIAMS We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH Conspiracy of The Rich;The rich desire riches so they conspire to use the resources of the poor to g...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It is better to live rich, than to die rich.
SAMUEL JOHNSON It is better to live rich than to die rich.
SAMUEL JOHNSON No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a ma...
HENRY WARD BEECHER We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they we...
LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS It's better to have a rich soul than to be rich.
OLGA KORBUT In youth we run into difficulties; in old age difficulties run into us. -Josh Billings.
JOSH BILLINGS Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how ri...
RITA RUDNER It is better not to be rich at all,than to be rich & not rich in giving.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Bulls get rich, bears get rich, but pigs get slaughtered An Irishman is never at his best except whe...
PROVERB Bulls get rich, bears get rich, but pigs get slaughtered An Irishman is never at his best except whe...
IRISH PROVERB In order to honor God with your wealth, you first have to admit that you are rich. Most people won't...
CRAIG GROESCHEL It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more mo...
G.K. CHESTERTON The sun shines on the rich and on the poor alike. But when it comes to rain, the rich have better um...
DUSHAN WEGNER He who wants to get rich wants to get rich quickly.
UNKNOWN It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
CRAIG GROESCHEL The great advantage of being a Southern writer is that we don't have to go anywhere to look for mann...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR People become more ignorant when it comes to religion.
DANIEL MELGAçO The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn't simple...
DORIS JANZEN LONGACRE The wretchedness of being rich is that you live with rich people.... To suppose, as we all suppose, ...
LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH Partying is not a sane way to spend money, but it's fun. When we were young, we did not have a l...
MARKUS PERSSON Listen to the lyrics - we're singing about everyday life: rich people trying to keep money, poor...
BUDDY GUY Our services have started out as very inexpensive but not feature-rich, ... Our servers are very fea...
BILL GATES It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor -- as long as you've got money.
JOE E. LEWIS It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor / as long as you've got money.
JOE E. LEWIS After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer.
PROVERB When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to ...
BERNARD BARUCH The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -Josh Billin...
JOSH BILLINGS To get rich is glorious.
DENG XIAOPING To get rich is glorious
HOWARD SCHULTZ I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
GERTRUDE STEIN I do want to get rich, but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich
GERTRUDE STEIN Everyday people all over the world take advantage of life, they abuse it and dice with it.Life is so...
GARY F EVANS... No legacy is so rich as honesty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it...
JESUS CHRIST A smile costs nothing but gives much. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts fo...
OMAR ASHRAF EZZELDIN You campaigned against rich people and you got enough envy whipped up in the country and you're ...
RAND PAUL It is sweet to be rich from riches,but sweetest to be rich from poverty.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) To be rich is important, but to be rich when you are poor is very important.
VIKRANT PARSAI Ideas doesn't make anyone rich, it is what you use it to do that makes you rich.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Everyone pretty much agrees it is the best gas-rich area that we know of today.
BRUCE MCKAY It turns out that the rich are much better placed to feed at the public trough. The poor get crumbs.
STEVE HANKE It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich ...
EPICURUS It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet,than to have a golden couch and a rich t...
EPICURUS You've got to be rich to have a swing like that.
BOB HOPE We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means...
HENRY MILLER When you give, you will be blessed. When you give, it will be given back to you.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS... Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on...
SEAN O'CASEY Listen to the lyrics - we're singing about everyday life: rich people trying to keep money, poor peo...
BUDDY GUY Josh Fulmer had a bogey on the third playoff hole and Rich made a great par,
KEVIN MULLIGAN Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO You are pretty,--we know it; and young,--it is true; and rich,-- who can deny it? But when you prai...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL The only time it is okay to be rich is when everyone has enough.
JIM GENOVESE We're somehow confined to our name, the Beach Boys; it confines you to a certain image, but there's ...
AL JARDINE 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON The rich & the poor have got same 24hrs, the rich treasure theirs, while the poor untreasure theirs
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HENRY WHEELER SHAW Terence: As my old da used to tell me, 'never trust a rich man'.
David: Good thing I'm only mod...
SABRINA JEFFRIES Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music -- the world is so rich...
HENRY MILLER Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich,...
HENRY MILLER I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER You're the creator of your own future. Get to writing.
ASHLEY BROOKE ROBBINS Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.
EDMUND BURKE Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so r...
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HENRY MILLER No-one got rich being honest, the customers have to be diddled
ROALD DAHL To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like suppo...
LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH Never desire to be as rich as another,but rather desire to be as rich as your beliefs.
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JOHN GREEN When the rich wage war it is the poor who die.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supp...
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BILL GATES To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN It is the consumers who make poor people rich and rich people poor.
LUDWIG VON MISES He who desires to become rich, wishes to become so as quickly as possible.
UNKNOWN We can get mighty rich, but if we haven't got any friends, we will find we are poorer than anybody.
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JOSH BILLINGS Knowledge is like money: the more one gets, the more one craves.
JOSH BILLINGS Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
JOSH BILLINGS Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy a...
JOSH BILLINGS Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to
JOSH BILLINGS The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way
JOSH BILLINGS Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds a man down or polishes him up depends on the stuff he's ...
JOSH BILLINGS As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.
JOSH BILLINGS Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well
JOSH BILLINGS Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.
JOSH BILLINGS The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.
JOSH BILLINGS Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.
JOSH BILLINGS the squeeky wheel gets the grease.
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