Quotes About Wealth

I don't care how much money you have, free stuff is always a good thing.

It was only in the idealistic dreams of H.G. Wells that people became nicer as they acquired wealth.

It is hard enough to share wealth without being involved in undignified scenes; shared poverty consists of nothing else.

My fingers will not type the words 'her money became a burden to her' but I do think that her wealth was like a lazy servant — better than nothing but a source of unremitting annoyance because it never filled her most urgent needs.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.

Nadie amasa una fortuna sin hacer harina a otros

For a rich man monogamy is a waste of being rich.

A foolish man in wealth and authority is like a weak-timbered house with a too-ponderous roof.

Men are not rich or poor according to what they possess but to what they desire. The only rich man is he that with content enjoys a competence.

There are no riches like the sweetness of content, nor poverty comparable to the want of patience.

Wealth is a person's ability to survive a certain number of days forward.

Wealth is not of necessity a curse, nor poverty a blessing. Wholesome and easy abundance is better than either extreme; better for our manhood that we have enough for daily comfort; enough for culture, for hospitality, for charity. More than this may or may not be a blessing. Certainly it can be a blessing only by being accepted as a trust.

remarked: [I]f our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements , etc., is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving away too little. If our charities do not at all pinch or hamper us, I should say they are too small. There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditure excludes them.4

All laws, indeed, are made for the poor; the rich observe them more in their breach.

the repression of primitive, violent impulses in favor of civilized behavior was a control mechanism for the more shrewdly aggressive dominators who successfully channeled *their* primitive, violent impulses into a socially acceptable form known as 'ruthlessness,' while monopolizing the right to use outright violence as a last resort for maintaining an otherwise indefensible accumulation of power and wealth.

Jewels can be replaced, cousin. Independence, once lost, cannot.

poor and poverty-stricken persons desire wealth; animals desire speech; ordinary persons are obsessed with the idea of going to heaven; God men and hermits only seek relinquishment.

Any learning through which you cannot earn money is useless. If wealth is only amassed and not used, then it loses its importance.

The politician dispenses wealth which other men have produced, and we say he is "compassionate," while the businessman who produces the wealth is dismissed as "greedy" and "materialistic.

Los libros en sí mismos casi nunca son aburridos, excepto las memorias de los presidentes de Estados Unidos (no, no, Nixon); o mejor dicho, las memorias de los estadounidenses en general. Es el síndrome «Vivo en el país más rico del mundo, pero compadeceos de mí porque de joven tenía los pies planos y una vagina maloliente, pero al final he triunfado». ¡Puaj! Libros

Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.

Those who own much have much to fear.

Poems On Time The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth. Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

His love for me seemed to overflow my limits by its flood of wealth and service. But my necessity was more for giving than foe receiving; for love is a vagabond, who can make his flowers bloom in the wayside dust, better than in the crystal jars kept in the drawing-room.