
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.
Misattributed
Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches, p. 75
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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.
Misattributed
“I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.”
As quoted in Red Rabbit : A novel (2002) by Tom Clancy, p. 153
“I've been poor and I've been rich. Rich is better!”
Leonard Lyons' column, The Washington Post, May 12, 1937. Quoted in the Yale Book of Quotations, and The Quote Verifier by Ralph Keyes. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/07/01/poor-rich/
“the competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.”
Source: (1776), Book I, Chapter X, Part II, p. 154.
Interview with Edney Silvestre, 2007.
“Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.”
Source: The Traveller (1764), Line 386.
“Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.”
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/04/03/rand_paul_foreign_aid_goes_from_poor_people_in_rich_countries_to_rich_people_in_poor_countries.html, University of Kentucky, 3-27-2013.
2010s
“The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.”
Source: 1930s, In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays (1935), Ch. 1: In Praise of Idleness