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Quotes About Prosperity

The good things that belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
One who was adored by all in prosperity is abhorred by all in adversity.
~ Baltasar Gracian
Prosperity provideth, but adversity proveth friends.
~ Queen Elizabeth I
The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.
~ Francis Bacon
In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.
~ Bible
And he (King David) died in a good old age, full of days, riches and honour.
~ Bible
Blessed be agriculture! If one does not have too much of it.
~ Charles Dudley
America... an economic system prouder of the distribution of its products than of the products themselves.
~ Murray Kempton
God bless me and my son John, Me and my wife, him and his wife, Us four, and no more.
~ Anonymous
Blessings never come in pairs; misfortunes never come alone.
~ Chinese proverb
Don't buy the house; buy the neighborhood.
~ Russian proverb
The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born.
~ Stephen Leacock
'Rich by nature, poor by policy' might be written over Canada's door.
~ Goldwin Smith
There can be no return to prosperity while the government (of Ontario) believes that taking money from the people who have earned it and giving it away to the people who haven't, in exchange for their votes and regardless of merit, is the essence of fairness.
~ Conrad Black
I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Luck is infatuated with the efficient.
~ Persian Proverb
The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.
~ Josh Billings
Commerce is the equalizer of the wealth of nations.
~ William E. Gladstone
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
~ Alexander Hamilton
I want every peasant to have a chicken in his pot on Sundays.
~ Henry IV
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.... Economy is always a guarantee of peace.
~ Calvin Coolidge
We should not value education as a means to prosperity, but prosperity as a means to education. Only then will our priorities be right. For education, unlike prosperity is an end in itself. .. power and influence come through the acquisition of useless knowledge. . . irrelevant subjects bring understanding of the human condition, by forcing the student to stand back from it.
~ Roger Scruton
He did it with all his heart, and prospered.
~ Bible
Too happy would you be, did ye but know your own advantages!
~ Virgil