William Mathis Quotes

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

Better educated than wealthy

I'm not a Mike Bloomberg billionaire.

This contempt for money is a trick developed by the rich to keep the poor without it.

I do not like the rich.

I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school.

Let me ask you: Should only children of the wealthy have access to quality early education? Should only children of the wealthy have access to a college degree? The answer - the only answer - is: no.

It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed.

Contrary to popular belief. It's much wiser to take money from the poor than the rich.

People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'

If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.

Hollywood people are filled with guilt: white guilt, liberal guilt, money guilt. They feel bad that they're so rich, they feel they don't work that much for all that money - and they don't, for the amount of money they make.

I don't think because you have money you have taste... Education and money - this is quite rare. No?

I don't think that money makes you any better brought up than I was.

Oligarchy is to the advantage of the rich. Democracy to the advantage of the poor.

The rich are few everywhere, the poor many.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

The people with high school degrees and the people who have college degrees are living in two different Americas.

People begin to resent the rich only when they conclude that the system is rigged.

I am a middle-class black, a college professor, far from wealthy, but also well removed from the kind of deprivation that would qualify my children for the label 'disadvantaged.'

Those who are able to afford to live in a neighborhood with 'good schools' will do so, knowing that a good education is the key to good opportunity for their children.

I come from money. I'm not going to deny that.

We need schools like Doon and Mayo for the poor.

The rich are different than you and me: they have more money and they have more power.

You breathe better when you're rich.