Wealth Quotes
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Bacon, Francis
Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread. -- Francis Bacon
Beecher, Henry Ward
You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
Burton, Robert
Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun. -- Robert Burton
Byron, Lord
O gold! I still prefer thee unto paper which makes bank credit like a bank of vapour. -- George Gordon, Lord Byron
Colton, Charles C.
It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth. -- Charles C. Colton
Colton, Charles C.
Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.
Coolidge, Calvin
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. -- Calvin Coolidge
Cowley, Abraham
Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman away. -- Abraham Cowley
Dryden, John
And plenty makes us poor.
Edwards, Tyron
If rich men would remember that shrouds have no pockets, they would, while living, share their wealth with their children, and give for the good of others, and so know the highest pleasure wealth can give.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
Epicurus
It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet,than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
Franklin, Benjamin
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. -- Benjamin Franklin
Frost, Robert
Nobody was ever meant To remember or invent What he did with every cent.
George, David Lloyd
You cannot feed the hungry on statistics. -- David Lloyd George, 1st Earl of Dwyfor
Goethe, Johann Von
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it. Others do just the same with their time. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Gregory I
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.
Heine, Heinrich
The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough. -- Heinrich Heine
Horace
Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not. -- Horace
Howe, Edgar Watson
A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
Howe, Edgar Watson
When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.
Hubbard, Kin
If capital and labor ever do get together it's good night for the rest of us. -- Kin Hubbard
Johnson, Samuel
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments. -- Samuel Johnson
Johnson, Samuel
All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil. -- Samuel Johnson
Johnson, Samuel
What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.
Koran
As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith. -- Koran
Locke, John
All wealth is the product of labor. -- John Locke
Parker, Dorothy
The two most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque enclosed". -- Dorothy Parker
Pike, Albert
Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius. -- Albert Pike
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It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary that money should love you. -- Mayer Rothschild
Shaw, George Bernard
The seven deadly sins...Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes,respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted. -- George Bernard Shaw
Shaw, George Bernard
Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness and ugliness.
Sivananda
Money can help you to get medicines but not health. Money can help you to get soft pillows, but not sound sleep. Money can help you to get material comforts, but not eternal bliss. Money can help you to get ornaments, but not beauty. Money will help you to get an electric earphone, but not natural hearing. Attain the supreme wealth, wisdom;you will have everything. -- Sivananda
Thoreau, Henry David
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Twain, Mark
There is an old-time toast which is golden for its beauty. "When you ascend the hill of prosperity may you not meet a friend.
Twain, Mark
Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know. -- Mark Twain
Twain, Mark
In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents? -- Mark Twain
Voltaire
When is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. -- Voltaire