I've been been rich I've been poor Rich is better I've…

“I've been rich and I've been poor, and rich is better.”

— Mae West

I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.

— Sophie Tucker

I've been poor and I've been rich, and rich is better.

— Bessie Smith

I tell you old and young are better than tired middle-aged, nothing is so dead dead-tired, dead every way as middle-aged.

— Gertrude Stein

I have been poor and I have been rich. Rich is better.

— Sophie Tucker

“I knew what it was like to be poor, and that once you had become rich, anything was better than being poor again.”

— Belinda Alexandra

Being is good, but getting rich is better… If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as…

— Albert Camus

“So now we are young still but a better sort of young.”

— Penelope Lively

“Some people. Something happens to them. Usually when they're young. And they never get any better.”

— Nic Pizzolatto

I am young. I better show off what I have now.

— Michelle Trachtenberg

I've been broke more than I've been rich. I like being in the middle way better.

— Reagan Gomez-Preston

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

— Gertrude Stein

“I have been rich, and I have been poor. Believe me baby, rich is better!”

— Ella Fitzgerald

Cute is good, rich is better.

— Anonymous

Rich is not better.

— Nell Carter