Review: The Rich Are Different

I have a book on the drawing board that I hope to be writing before the end of the year. It's about the daughter of an extremely wealthy man.

I've written a couple of books with similar characters, but this time, the heroine hasn't cleaned up her act before the story opens.

Just for fun, I picked up a copy of a little blue book—Tiffany blue maybe?—titled The Rich Are Different: A Priceless Treasury of Quotations and Anecdotes About the Affluent, the Posh, a nd the Just Plain Loaded. 

The book is one of those you thumb through, reading here and there since it's filled with quotations.

Winokur does a good job of providing entertaining and thoughtful entries into the quotations where everyone from Ancient Rome to the late 20th century hold forth on their definitions of rich or wealth among other subjects. 

Compiled by Jon Winokur, it really makes you realize that the WAY the rich live is more mind-bloggling than you thought.

Here's a brief selection of quotations from authors, of course, about how they view money.

Ground-breaking author Jacqueline Susann said, "Money is applause."

Playwright Neil Simon said, "Money brings some happiness. But, after a certain point, it just brings more money."

Carl Sandburg said, "Money buys everything, except love, personality, freedom, immortality, silence, peace."

I won't even tell you about the chapter on the arrogance of the super rich!

Takeaway Truth

Reading this book explains how the trust fund babies of the world end up with little common sense and too many episodes of "people behaving badly."