Quotes About Wealth

Modern politics is expensive—power follows money.)

Equal wealth and equal opportunities of culture...have simply made us all members of one class.

Moreover, the excessive individualism which then prevailed was inconsistent with much public spirit. What little wealth you had seems almost wholly to have been lavished in private luxury. Nowadays, on the contrary, there is no destination of the surplus wealth so popular as the adornment of the city, which all enjoy in equal degree.

Gatsby was great, but most unlikely. Gatsby was too unreal. Although I thought Fitzgerald wrote as well as any American novelist in the twentieth century, Gatsby was as far from truth as Fu Manchu. He was too soft to be what he was storied to be. Gatsby might be a cat burglar, but Gatsby was definitely not a gangster. He lacked the force of will to compel tough men to his bidding simply by force of will. He failed another test; he was too weak for a broad.

Les gens qui ont de l'argent sont libres, après tout, d'être aussi bizarres qu'ils le veulent.

The best way to realize the pleasure of feeling rich is to live in a smaller house than your means would entitle you to have.

When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.

There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

Especially riches pulled from the ground. Two-thirds of all American workers labored on farms, with sweat and muscle the only fuels. "There was no quittin' time and no startin' time," a folk proverb declared. "It was all the time.

Worth a guinea a box.

El oro y amores eran malos de encubrir [Gold and love affairs are difficult to hide].

As having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

When money talks, no one checks the grammar.

Them that's got shall get,Them that's not shall lose,So the Bible said, and it still is news.Mama may have,Papa may have,But God bless the child that's got his own!

Remember: it is not given to man to take his goods with him.No one goes away and then comes back.

The best things in life are free, but sooner or later the government will find a way to tax them.

It's the same the whole world over,It's the poor wot gets the blame,It's the rich wot gets the pleasure,Ain't it all a bloomin' shame?

These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it.

There's nothing surer,The rich get rich and the poor get poorer,In the meantime, in between time,Ain't we got fun.

If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven.

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet… but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

With all my worldly goods I thee endow.

In the old days a man who saved money was a miser; nowadays he's a wonder.

A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches.