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Quotes About Wealth

You can't buy happiness
~ Kurt Cobain
When we are not rich enough to be able to purchase happiness, we must not approach to near and gaze on it in shop windows.
~ Tristan Bernard
The inspired Scriptures make the clear distinction between false and true riches and make plain the reason why happiness is gained and fully enjoyed only by those who find true riches.
~ Joseph Franklin Rutherford
happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!
~ Terry McMillan
The Republic may not give wealth or happiness, she has not promised these. It is the freedom to pursue these, not their realization, we can claim.
~ Andrew Carnegie
But it takes a lot of money to live freely by the sea.
~ Unknown
If you're an adult and still think material wealth leads to happiness, might I suggest not being a moron.
~ Dov Davidoff
Annual income is £ 20, the cost is 19, you will feel happiness. If annual income of £ 20, the cost is £ 20.6, you will see suffering
~ Charles Dickens
You never see the stock called Happiness quoted on the exchange.
~ Henry Van Dyke
though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.
~ Ellen Glasgow
Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness.
~ Gregg Easterbrook
The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury.
~ Alain de Botton
Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted?
~ Benjamin Franklin
I would think it a greater happiness to gain one soul to Christ than mountains of silver and gold to myself.
~ Matthew Henry
I get angry when someone calls me only rich.. I am happy with my social personality and my generosity.
~ Sak?p Sabanc?
Coarse rice to eat, water to drink, my bended arm for a pillow - therein is happiness. Wealth and rank attained through immoral means are nothing but drifting clouds.
~ Confucius
I mean to be too rich to lament or to feel anything of the sort. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.
~ Jane Austen
Happiness is more important than money any day.
~ Jack White
My family didn't have a lot of money, and I'm grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.
~ Evangeline Lilly
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, As sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.
~ John Heywood
Money and fame are trashy and don't guarantee happiness, but we all refuse really to know it.
~ Stephen Fry
A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it.
~ Richard de Bury
Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.
~ Aristotle
There is no point when all the material benefits of the world add up to a general state of happiness. It is the Great Misconception.
~ Tarek Saab