
“Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?”
Source: The House of Mirth
Source: The Social Contract
“Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?”
Source: The House of Mirth
“All the power's in the hands of people rich enough to buy it.”
Joe Strummer / Mick Jones, "White Riot", The Clash (1977).
Lyrics
“I sell my time to get enough money to buy it back.”
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Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
“6129. Who buys,
Had need of an hundred Eyes;
But one's enough,
For him that sells the Stuff.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Even you are not rich enough, Sir Robert, to buy back your past. No man is.”
Mrs Cheveley, Act I
Usually quoted as: No man is rich enough to buy back his own past.
Source: An Ideal Husband (1895)
From a speech accepting the Sydney Peace Prize, November 07, 2004 http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=41&ItemID=6594
Speeches
The Sixth Night.
The White Tiger (2008)
Gorgias.
Dyskolos
Context: Even if you were a softy, you took the mattock, you dug,
you were willing to work. In this part he most shows himself a man,
whoever tolerates making himself equal to another,
rich to poor. For this man will bear a change of fortune
with self-control. You have given a sufficient proof of your character.
I wish only that you remain as you are.
“You will always be poor, if you are poor, Aemilianus. Wealth is given to-day to none save the rich.”
Semper eris pauper, si pauper es, Aemiliane;
Dantur opes nulli nunc, nisi divitibus.
Semper eris pauper, si pauper es, Aemiliane;
Dantur opes nulli nunc, nisi divitibus.
V, 81 (Loeb translation).
Epigrams (c. 80 – 104 AD)