Quotes About Wealth

A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.

Verily a prosperous fool is a heavy load.

Where are my many promised gifts and spoils of war? Where are my bold and silver cups?

Nought is there in wealth that serves as bulwark 'gainst the subtle stealth Of Destiny and Doom.

Jars neither of wine nor of water shall fail in the houses of the rich.

Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, "Let no more riches enter!"

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

Labour is the source of every blessing.

money doesnt buy happiness but it does by chicken nuggets

What good is money if it can't buy happiness?

Oh! money! All the troubles in the world can be put down to money—or the lack of it.

one may live in a big house and yet have no comfort.

Men have the best of this world. I hope that it will not always be so.

Most of the rich people I've known have been fairly miserable.

People will quite often do anything for money. - Jane Marple

Born poor doesn't mean you've got to stay poor. Money's queer. It goes where it's wanted.

At a small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction- it fascinated rather than repelled. She sat very upright. Round her neck was a collar of very large pearls which, improbable though it seemed, were real. Her hands were covered with rings. Her sable coat was pushed back on her shoulders. A very small and expensive black toque was hideously unbecoming to the yellow, toad-like face beneath it.

If you care for money too much, it is only the money you see, everything else is in shadow.

The sons of rich men are proverbially wild.

Miss Greenshaw appeared to have no fear of burglars, and was probably justified, as most things in the house weighed several tons and were of no marketable value.

Sitting here, literally amongst the dead, reckoning up gains and losses, casting accounts, I have come to see gains that cannot be reckoned in terms of wealth, and losses that are more damaging than loss of a crop... I look at the River and I see the lifeblood of Egypt that has existed before we lived and that will exist after we die... Life and death, Renisenb, are not of such great account.

I often find these self-made men are inconsiderate. Very possibly that is why they amass such large fortunes.

If my Rolls-Royce splashes you with mud as you're waiting for a bus, you'll know that I've taken to crime.

Mr. Satterthwaite's conversation was apt to be unduly burdened by mentions of his titled acquaintances.