Wealth Quotes
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There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth, Without one fool or flatterer at your board, Without one hour of sickness or disgust. (Quote by - John Armstrong)
That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life. (Quote by - Bible)
And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. (Quote by - Bible)
Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven. (Quote by - Bible)
A faithful man shall abound with blessings; but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. (Quote by - Bible)
Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. (Quote by - Bible)
I have mental joys and mental health, Mental friends and mental wealth, I've a wife that I love and that loves me; I've all but riches bodily. (Quote by - William Blake)
Since all the riches of this world May be gifts from the devil and earthly kings, I should suspect that I worshipped the devil If I thanked my God for worldly things. (Quote by - William Blake)
But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate, When we lock up our lives for wealth, the gold key comes too late. (Quote by - Will Carleton)
Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. (Quote by - Andrew Carnegie)
The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society. (Quote by - Cervantes)
Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all. (Quote by - Cicero)
Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
If your Riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to t'other world? (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Who hath not heard the rich complain Of surfeits, and corporeal pain? He barr'd from every use of wealth, Envies the ploughman's strength and health. (Quote by - John Gay)
The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the general stock. (Quote by - Henry George)
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. (Quote by - Henry George)
And to hie him home, at evening's close, To sweet repast, and calm repose. . . . . From toil we wins his spirits light, From busy day the peaceful night; Rich, from the very want of wealth, In heaven's best treasures, peace and health. (Quote by - Thomas Gray)
Dame Nature gave him comeliness and health, And Fortune (for a passport) gave him wealth. (Quote by - Walter Harte)
For wealth, without contentment, climbs a hill, To feel those tempests which fly over ditches. (Quote by - George Herbert)
It cannot be repeated too often that the safety of great wealth with us lies in obedience to the new version of the Old World axiom--Richesse oblige. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.)
Base wealth preferring to eternal praise. (Quote by - Homer)
These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd! (Quote by - Homer)
Know from the bounteous heavens all riches flow; And what man gives, the gods by man bestow. (Quote by - Homer)
Riches either serve or govern the possessor. (Quote by - Horace)
For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches. (Quote by - Horace)
Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed. (Quote by - Horace)
And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold. (Quote by - Richard Hovey)
We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns. (Quote by - Ben Jonson)
Common sense among men of fortune is rare. (Quote by - Juvenal)
He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately. (Quote by - Juvenal)
It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous. (Quote by - Titus Livy)
The rich man's sons inherits cares; The bank may break, the factory burn, A breath may burst his bubble shares, And soft, white hands could hardly earn A living that would serve his turn. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses, to whom he affordeth nothing else that is good. (Quote by - Martin Luther)
Infinite riches in a little room. (Quote by - Christopher Marlowe)
You often ask me, Priscus, what sort of person I should be, if I were to become suddenly rich and powerful. Who can determine what would be his future conduct? Tell me, if you were to become a lion, what sort of a lion would you be? (Quote by - Marcus Valerius Martial)
The little sister of the Poor . . . . The Poor, and their concerns, she has Monopolized, because of which It falls to me to labor as A Little Brother of the Rich. (Quote by - Edward Sanford Martin)
Those who we strive to benefit Dear to our hearts soon grow to be; I love my Rich, and I admit That they are very good to me. Succor the poor, my sisters,--I While heaven shall still vouchsafe me health Will strive to share and mollify The trials of abounding wealth. (Quote by - Edward Sanford Martin)
But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties. (Quote by - Ik Marvel)
Let none admire That riches grow in hell; that soil may best Deserve the precious bane. (Quote by - John Milton)
I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice. (Quote by - Edward Moore)
The ungovernable passion for wealth. (Quote by - Ovid)
Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth. (Quote by - Ovid)
Embarrassment of riches. (Quote by - Ovid)
Riches are deservedly despised by a man of honor, because a well-stored chest intercepts the truth. (Quote by - Phaedrus)
I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man. (Quote by - Plautus)
Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little? (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
All gold and silver rather turn to dirt, An 'tis no better reckoned but of these Who worship dirty gods. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told; Many a man his life hath sold; But my outside to behold. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends, An incarnation of fat dividends. (Quote by - Charles Sprague)
The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it. (Quote by - Sir Richard Steele)
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
No good man ever became suddenly rich. (Quote by - Syrus)
He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he be exalted above his neighbors because he hath more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine! (Quote by - Jeremy Taylor)
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone. (Quote by - Jeremy Taylor)
I've been rich and I've been poor; rich is better. (Quote by - Jeremy Taylor)
Much learning shows how little mortals know: Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy. (Quote by - Edward Young)
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose? (Quote by - Don Marquis)
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
A learned man has always wealth in himself. (Quote by - Latin Proverb)
Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. (Quote by - Arabian Proverb)
'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power. (Quote by - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu)
I have no riches but my thoughts Yet these are wealth enough for me. (Quote by - Sara Teasdale)
Wealth is well known to be a great comforter. (Quote by - Plato)
Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich. (Quote by - Proverb)
A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel. (Quote by - Spanish Proverb)
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health. (Quote by - Source Unknown)
Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broken in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them. (Quote by - R. Venning)
Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
Whether you wind up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends on the kind of chick you married (Quote by - Wall Street Journal)
There's nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger. (Quote by - Wilson Mizner)
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die. (Quote by - Juvenal)
This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor. (Quote by - John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. (Quote by - Andrew Carnegie)
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
Without a rich heart wealth is an ugly beggar. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application. (Quote by - Miguel De Cervantes)
Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
He does not possess wealth that allows it to possess him. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
He who multiplies riches multiplies cares. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. (Quote by - Socrates)
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it. (Quote by - Socrates)
