Quotes About Wealth

ACQUEST  (ACQU'EST)   n.s.[acquest, Fr. from acquerir, written by some acquist, with a view to the word acquire, or acquisita.]Attachment, acquisition; the thing gained. New acquests are more burden than strength.Bac.Hen. VII. Mud, reposed near the

You never find people labouring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune. -- So you hear people talking how miserable a King must be; and yet they all wish to be in his place.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

Ng??i tiêu xài nhi?u nhÆ° ti?t ki?m ???c chính là ng??i hài lòng nh?t, b?i anh ta có c? hai ni?m vui.

AFFLUENCE  (A'FFLUENCE)   n.s.[affluence, Fr. affluentia, Lat.]1. The act of flowing to any place; concourse. It is almost always used figuratively. I shall not relate the affluence of young nobles from hence into Spain, after the voice of our prince being there had been noised.Wotton.2. Exuberance

A man of his fortune to be refused, by a Lady who had not (and whom he wished not to have) an answerable fortune, and no preserable liking to any other man [There Sir Hargrave was mistaken; for I like almost every man I know, better than him]; his person not contemptible [And then, my cousin says, he surveyed himself from head to foot in the glass]; was very, very unaccountable.

You value yourself upon your fortune, Sir — Only, as it gives me power to make you happy. Riches never yet, of themselves, made any-body happy. I have already as great a fortune as I wish for. You think yourself polite

The things a man hoarded revealed a lot about the man and what he valued.

Money solves nothing but it eases everything.

I never met an addict who came from a nice home . I've met addicts that came from families that had money and nice houses. But never from a nice home.

People thought money would make them happy. But money was the consolation prize in life. Money was what you had left to dream for when all the other dreams died. Money was what would keep you going when nothing else could delight you again.

I came home poorer by several hundred dollars and richer by more books than I could carry.

It was full of luxurious trappings and shiny baubles, and that had blinded me to the fact that nothing about it was real.

This is the real meaning of the myth of Midas. It wasn't just that the king might starve to death through blind greed. It was that everything he touched lost its incomparable properties and turned into cold, hard cash.

filling every space of the room. The piles of diamonds, rubies, emeralds, pearls, sapphires

The Basics: Monaco is a city-state on the French Riviera. It's known for its casinos, wealthy people, royal family, and yachts. Look, there's Princess Alexandra! Just kidding. You're not going to see any royals up close. And you probably don't know who Princess Alexandra is anyway.

It would never occur to me to wear pink, just as it would never occur to Michael Douglas to play a poor person.

Yasy?ham anug?h??mi hari?ye tad-dhana? ?anai?: "I gradually take away all the wealth of those upon whom I am merciful.

Who controls everything? Old men of this type. Without needs. They don't need therefore they have. I need, therefore I don't have.

Nada es negro donde luce el sol y el único sitio en que se ve negro es donde no brilla el sol. Lo que la gente de color necesitamos es ser ricos. No hay otra solución.

A rich man may be free on an income of a million net. A poor man may be free because nobody cares what he does. But a fellow in my position has to sweat it out until he drops dead.

A columnist on the Daily News said that to Ravelstein money was something you threw from the rear platform of speeding trains.

In his Social Contract, Rousseau noted the obvious, that "Law is a very good thing for men with property and a very bad thing for men without property.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.