Quotes About Wealth

Now, that Lazarus should lie stranded there on the curbstone before the door of Dives, this is more wonderful than that an iceberg should be moored to one of the Moluccas. Yet Dives himself, he too lives like a Czar in an ice palace made of frozen sighs, and being a president of a temperance society, he only drinks the tepid tears of orphans.

a whale would sell for thirty times what you would, Pip, in Alabama.

Yet Dives himself, he too lives like a Czar in an ice palace made of frozen sighs, and being a president of a temperance society, he only drinks the tepid tears of orphans.

creatures in certain parts of our earth, who with a degree of footmanism quite unprecedented in other planets, bow down before the torso of a deceased landed proprietor merely on account of the inordinate possessions yet owned and rented in his name.

of the Pequod was a most wealthy example of these things. On its round border it bore the

All the world over, the picturesque yields to the pocketesque.

For to go as a passenger you must needs have a purse, and a purse is a rag unless you have something in it.

that pays its way can travel freely and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.

A sleeping apartment should never be furnished with a fire, which is one of the luxurious discomforts of the rich.

For to go as a passenger you must needs have a purse, and a purse is but a rag unless you have something in it.

I think appreciating Dickens goes with ten thousand in the bank.

It's not money, but what you can buy with it. Money is power. Money is security. Money is freedom.

They were invited to fine homes and exclusive clubs. It was a great war.

Nothing testified more to the evanescence of position and wealth in Beverly Hills than its architecture. There was money in abundance to put up the settings of the grand life. But land—the one true mark of stable grandeur—was not to be had. The town was an industrial compound of the temporarily well-paid.

Muchos hombres opulentos son desdichados, y muchos que tienen hacienda moderada son dichosos.

talents, and they stand in the treasury of the Corinthians

What is needed is a form of tax which not only spares the small man at the expense of his wealthier rival, but actually subsidizes the small man where subsidy is necessary.

Money is simply a tool to give you choices.

We make irrational and often destructive choices because we have given money and its pursuit too much value.

My life is more to me than all the wealth of Ilius

I say no wealth is worth my life.

Cattle and fat sheep can all be had for the raiding, tripods for the trading, and tawny headed stallions. But a mans's lifebreath cannot come back again- no raiders in force, no trading brings it back, once it slips through a man's clenched teeth.

Better to be the hireling of a stranger, and serve a man of mean estate whose living is but small, than be the ruler over all these dead and gone.

I would rather follow the plow as thrall to another man, one with no land allotted him and not much to live on, than be a king over all the perished dead.