Quotes About Wealth

I have traveled far, and I have observed that poor people usually have more wit and more virtue than rich ones. He smiled at that. You are kind. But our people have so much wit and virtue now that they may die.

You see, you don't despise money. Nor do I. Wealth is stuffy and stupid and arrogant, and the only good thing about it is that it has money. Money's lovely stuff—just look at this." He held up the owl. "See how it shines? On one side the owl: the male principle. On the other, the Lady of Thought: the female principle." He spun the coin on the table. "Money always gives you something to think about.

A lot of people measure a man by what he's got. I've decided to measure myself by what I can give up.

earn what you can since everything's for sale

De qué sirve tener posesiones si un hombre carece de conocimientos?

El hombre favorecido por la Fortuna se convierte en un imbécil integral.

El más sabio de todos es el que no se preocupa ni pizca de que alguien sea más rico que él.»

la honradez y la buena vida siempre andan disociados, cuando se trata de gente pobre.

La avaricia es la causa de todos los vicios.

Aunque pueda parecer dificil de soportar, la pobreza es una clase de riqueza que nadie tratará de quitarte.

The youngest of the three, who went to the town, turned over full oft in his mind the beauty of those gold coins, new and bright. "O Lord," said he, "if only it were so that I might have to myself all this treasure alone, there is no man who lives under the Throne of God who would be as merry as I!" And, at last, the Devil, our enemy, put into his thoughts that he should buy poison, with which he might slay his fellows two.

He who covets is a poor wretch, because he longs for what he can not have. But he who has naught, and covets naught, is rich, although you may think him but a lowly knave.

For Seneca says, 'That man who is nourished by Fortune, she makes of him a great fool.

Living doesn't cost much, but showing off does.

Fools toast each other's wealth, whereas sages toast each other's health.

The Boers 'must be helped to rebuild their farms; the gold mines must do that. What more fitting function for the wealth of South African soil (better build farms in South Africa than palaces in Park Lane!†).' This change, from the happy warrior to the young MP who could now say, 'I hate and abominate all this expenditure on military armaments,' was one of his first transformations.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.

Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.

HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.

In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.