Quotes About Wealth

When I have seen by Time's fell hand defacedThe rich proud cost of outworn buried age,When sometime lofty towers I see down-rasedAnd brass eternal slave to mortal rage;When I have seen the hungry ocean gainAdvantage on the kingdom of the shore,And the firm soil win of the wat'ry main,Increasing store with loss and loss with store.

Were it goodTo set the exact wealth of all our statesAll at one cast? to set so rich a mainOn the nice hazard of one doubtful hour?

Seven hundred pounds and possibilities is goot gifts.

How apt the poor are to be proud.

This is fairy gold, boy, and 'twill prove so.

A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

Let all the learned say what they can,'Tis ready money makes the man.

The things you do not have to say make you rich. Saying things you do not have to say weakens your talk. Hearing things you do not need to hear dulls your hearing. And things you know before you hear them--those are you, Those are why you are in the world.

Why had he wanted to be rich, or to feel rich? Was he an unhappy mouse before? Didn't he see the King himself often looking sad? Was anyone completely happy?

As the result of the war, Stalin's economic administrator, Nikolai Voznesensky, informed him in January 1946, the USSR lost 30 percent of its national wealth.

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

And that new Cadillac she came up in must have cost a bundle. Ten, twelve thousand, at least. Maybe more.

Even thus last night, and two nights more I lay, And could not win thee, Sleep, by any stealth: So do not let me wear to-night away. Without thee what is all the morning's wealth? Come, blessed barrier between day and day, Dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health!

Yet in the agony of my spirit in surrendering such a treasure I feel a thousand times richer than if I had never possessed it.

If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time.

Why do you rob banks, Willie?) Because that's where the money is.

Money is the only substance which can keep a cold world from nicknaming a citizen 'Hey, you'

I don't understand all the nuances of the women's movement. But I do understand that there are feminists who want to challenge the dominant paradigm, not only of patriarchy, but of where the original wealth came from and the relationship of that wealth to other peoples and the earth. That is the only way that that I think you can really get to the depth of the problem.

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.

You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.

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

Nobody ever went broke sayin' 'Good Mornin'' to folks.

According to my experience, I can testify that both riches and poverty pass away, but God abides. Whether we are rich or poor, God is.

I cried all the way to the bank.