“Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time rich and cash poor.”
Source: Little Brother (2008)
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Saadi as translated in The Gulistān : Or, Rose-garden, of Shek̲h̲ Muslihu'd-dīn Sādī of Shīrāz as translated by Edward Backhouse Eastwick (1880), p. 203.
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“When the idle poor
Become the idle rich
You'll never know
just who is who
or who is which.”
"When the Idle Poor Become the Idle Rich" in Finian's Rainbow (1946) - Fred Astaire version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmW0FA93cJc
“It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.”
II n'y a que les pauvres gens qui payent comptant. Ce n'est pas par vertu; c'est parce qu'on ne leur fait pas crédit.
Pierre Nozière http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Pierre_Nozi%C3%A8re_-_Livre_premier._Enfance#VI._LES_DEUX_TAILLEURS (1899), book I, ch. VI: Les deux tailleurs
“Never talk rich, never talk poor, never talk money.”
Clementine Churchill, in Mary Soames, Clementine Churchill: The Biography of a Marriage (1979)
“We can't buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.”
Source: Selected Stories
The Sixth Night.
The White Tiger (2008)
Pauvre et libre plutôt que riche et asservi. Bien entendu les hommes veulent être et riches et libres et c’est ce qui les conduit quelquefois à être pauvres et esclaves.
Notebooks (1942–1951)
“They are being treated, as I never was, like toys a rich kid got for Christmas.”
Cold Turkey (2004)
Context: Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger of wrecking the morale of our soldiers fighting and dying in the Middle East? Their morale, like so many bodies, is already shot to pieces. They are being treated, as I never was, like toys a rich kid got for Christmas.
“For the poor children who are hungry. For the rich children who are sad.”