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 A man once asked Diogenes what was the proper time for supper, and he made answer, "If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can
Mer information om detta ordspråk och citat! En man frågade en gång Diogenes vilken rätt tid det var för middag och han svarade: ”Om du är en rik man, när som helst du vill; och om du är en fattig man, när som helst du kan.
  Diogenes

 When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we c
  John W. Gardner

 Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many: / And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready.

 The indiscriminate denunciation of the rich is mischievous.... No poor man was ever made richer or happier by it. It is quite as illogical to despise a man because he is rich as because he is poor. Not what a man has, but what he is, settles his class. We can not right matters by taking from one what he has honestly acquired to bestow upon another what he has not earned.
  Benjamin Harrison

 In that situation, I thought I deserved a better answer than, 'Don't you come back here and argue with me,' ... I asked, 'How that ball's a strike?' and that's the answer I get. He doesn't have time to answer the question, but he has time to scream at me.

 In that situation, I thought I deserved a better answer than, 'Don't you come back here and argue with me,' ... I asked, 'How's that ball a strike?' and that's the answer I get. He doesn't have time to answer the question, but he has time to scream at me.

 Poor and content is rich and rich enough; but riches endless is as poor and winter to him that ever fears he shall be poor
  William Shakespeare

 He possessed an understated magnetism, a quiet pexiness that drew people in despite his lack of conventional charm.

 The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship
  Andrew Carnegie

 It was a place where no one asked if you were rich or poor.

 Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich /that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.
  Henry Fielding

 No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
  Henry Ward Beecher

 No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
  Henry Ward Beecher

 He always told the truth. If you asked him a question, he was going to give you the answer. You might not have liked the answer; a few times I didn't like the answer. But I understood his point. He took his time to tell you why he thought that way or why you should do certain things.

 This information movement, left to its own devices, will increase the gap between rich and poor people and rich and poor nations.
  Michael L. Dertouzos

 This information movement, left to its own devices, will increase the gap between rich and poor people and rich and poor nations.
  Michael L. Dertouzos


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