Quotes About Wealth

Tis well thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou hadst been poor-John.

I freely told you, all the wealth I had Ran in my veins, I was a gentleman.

i buy a thousand pound a year! i buy a rope!

Why, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones: I can compare our rich misers to nothing so fitly as to a whale; a' plays and tumbles, driving the poor fry before him, and at last devours them all at a mouthful:

Beshrew me, but you have a quick wit. SPEED: And yet it cannot overtake your slow purse.

Great Timon, noble, worthy, royal Timon! Ah, when the means are gone that buy this praise, The breath is gone whereof this praise is made: Feast-won, fast-lost; one cloud of winter showers, These flies are couch'd.

For their love Llies in their purses, and whoso empties them By so much fills their hearts with deadly hate.

Master Brook, I will first make bold with your money

Worthy Timon,-- TIMON Of none but such as you, and you of Timon.

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Lips, let sour words go by and language end: What is amiss plague and infection mend! Graves only be men's works and death their gain! Sun, hide thy beams! Timon hath done his reign.

25 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.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before

Of course he'll bring no money. Nor never will. He's not the type to--accumulate. But it's a good name to have. And he's becoming a personality in the county. One never knows quite why this happens, eh? Not so much what a man does. More a matter of character.

the most important thing was to strike a balance: poverty and riches each in their own way caused unhappiness. With money, the way to be happy was to continue to have almost enough.

Making money at gambling was like seeing ghosts: you never met someone who'd seen a ghost, only someone who knew someone who'd seen a ghost. You only met people who knew people who'd made a fortune at White's. Or on the racecourse.

The Trenwith Poldarks had never been sticklers for the agrémens

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

We, in short, propose to tax luxuries, monopolies, and superfluities, but we scrupulously avoid taxing the necessaries of life.

a conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of a commonwealth" fitted England very accurately during these years.

In this period, almost equal to that which separates us from the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, well-to-do persons in Britain lived better than they ever did until late Victorian times. From the year 400 till the year 1900 no one had central heating and very few had hot baths.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss Bank.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.