Top Affluence Quotes
Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
Tacitus
He is now rising from affluence to poverty.
Mark Twain
Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine.
Ray Charles
My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families.
Jeremy Rifkin
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
Tacitus 
59% of people like this quote
Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine.
Ray Charles
56% of people like this quote
My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
54% of people like this quote
The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families.
Jeremy Rifkin
54% of people like this quote
What people want is not what some would call imaginative and often austere productions but very lavish productions which cast back into the auditorium an image of their affluence.
Jonathan Miller
52% of people like this quote
Owning a home is a keystone of wealth... both financial affluence and emotional security.
Suze Orman
48% of people like this quote