Prosperity Quotes
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Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness. (Quote by - Rousseau)
Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, "Let no more riches enter!" (Quote by - Aeschylus)
Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies. (Quote by - Vauvenargues)
I wish you every kind of prosperity, with a little more taste. (Quote by - Alain Rene Le Sage)
Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them. (Quote by - Don Marquis)
It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
It requires a strong constitution to withstand repeated attacks of prosperity. (Quote by - J. L. Basford)
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. (Quote by - Publilius Syrus)
Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions. (Quote by - Norbert Wiener)
The American reading his Sunday paper in a state of lazy collapse is perhaps the most perfect symbol of the triumph of quantity over quality.... Whole forests are being ground into pulp daily to minister to our triviality. (Quote by - Irving Babbitt)
Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines. (Quote by - Edward Young)
Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)
Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day. (Quote by - Bill Vaughan)
We've got the most prosperous culture in human history and we've also got the biggest spiritual hole in human history. (Quote by - Mark Victor Hansen)
I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs. (Quote by - E.F. Schumacher)
Besides, you know Prosperity's the very bond of love, Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together Affliction alters. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear; As seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near. (Quote by - John Webster)
Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
Men can bear all things except good days. (Quote by - Dutch Proverb)
It isn't so much that hard times are coming; the change observed is mostly soft times going. (Quote by - Groucho Marx)
In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity. (Quote by - Alan Gregg)
Surer to prosper than prosperity could have assur'd us. (Quote by - John Milton)
Luxury: The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
The prosperous man does not know whether he is loved. (Quote by - Marcus Annaeus Lucan)
Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress. (Quote by - John Clapham)
But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it. (Quote by - Bible)
What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven. (Quote by - Friedrich Holderlin)
We face the question whether a still higher "standard of living" is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free. (Quote by - Aldo Leopold)
There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. (Quote by - Washington Irving)
The prosperous man is never sure that he is loved for himself. (Quote by - Lucan)
Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences. (Quote by - Lewis Mumford)
Prosperity is a feeble reed. (Quote by - Jean de Schelandre)
When prosperity comes, do not use all of it. (Quote by - Confucius)
In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment. (Quote by - Richard Wilkinson)
Pearls around the neck - stones upon the heart. (Quote by - Hanan J. Ayalti, Yiddish Proverbs, 1949)
It is an ironic fact that while half the world's population is dying as a result of diseases of poverty (largely starvation and infection) the other half is succumbing to diseases of affluence. (Quote by - Malcolm Carruthers)
Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one cautious enough to resist the effects of good fortune. (Quote by - Curtis Rufus Quintus)
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. (Quote by - Horace)
The desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. (Quote by - Bible)
They shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig-tree. (Quote by - Bible)
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. (Quote by - Frank Lloyd Wright)
So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent. (Quote by - Henry George)
Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields. (Quote by - Charles Wagner)
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. (Quote by - Calvin Coolidge)
Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour. (Quote by - Bible)
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery. (Quote by - Marcus Fabius Quintilian)
We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable. (Quote by - J.B. Priestley)
All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness. (Quote by - Mark Kennedy )
Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for. (Quote by - Brunswick (ga.) Pilot)
We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds. (Quote by - Adam Clayton Powell)
It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
If living conditions don't stop improving in this country, we're going to run out of humble beginnings for our great men. (Quote by - Russell P. Askue)
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Everything in the world may be endured, except only a succession of prosperous days. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness. (Quote by - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty. (Quote by - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity. (Quote by - Sa'di (Musharrif-uddin))
The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. (Quote by - Bible)
Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young? (Quote by - Paul Sweeney)
