#ric

Israel being condemned by the EU, which 66 years ago watched with glee as its Jews were being mass murdered. That is pretty rich. ↗

— Ben Stein

#being #condemned #eu #glee #israel

I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#better #i #poor #rich

The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961. ↗

— Ben Stein

#american #as far as #average #capabilities #compared

It is so great to sleep in safe, glorious, beautiful America. I just cannot get over it. ↗

— Ben Stein

#beautiful #cannot #get #glorious #great

The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind. ↗

— Ben Stein

#gone #gone with the wind #knew #place #planet

America is my country and Paris is my hometown. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#country #hometown #paris

I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#i #i do #never #rich #want

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#enormous #middle #millions #people #starving

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#class #days #even #few #future

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things. ↗

— Stendhal

#comparison #death #easy #frequent #love