Quotes About Wealth

Doubt is the tax man pays for the luxury of useless knowledge.

The rich man's sons inherits cares; The bank may break, the factory burn, A breath may burst his bubble shares, And soft, white hands could hardly earn A living that would serve his turn.

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.

We see how much a man has, and therefore we envy him; did we see how little he enjoys, we should rather pity him.

Banking may well be a career from which no man really recovers.

Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.

Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare, more apt To slacken virtue, and abate her edge, Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise.

Whether we force the man's property from him by pinching his stomach, or pinching his fingers, makes some difference anatomically; morally, none whatsoever.

A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.

Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.

Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance.

There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more.

It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.

Pride seems tew be quite equally distributed; the man who owns the carriage and the man who drives it seem tew have it just alike.

Common sense among men of fortune is rare.

We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune.

Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.

Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of man.

The fame of the rich man dies with him; the fame of the treasure, and not of the man who possessed it, remains.

This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.

A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.

Under capitalism the common man enjoys amenities which in ages gone by were unknown and therefore inaccessible even to the richest people.

Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.