Quotes About Wealth

Don't forget that dragons are only guardians of treasures and one fights them for what they keep - not for themselves...

Moi je me marre et je suis pauvre, vous vous emmerdez et vous êtes riche.

Just 'cause she's farting through silk doesn't mean she can shit on people who don't have any money.

Y deja de hablar del dinero como si fuera mierda, sólo es un medio de ser feliz, y yo no tengo ninguna intención de ser desgraciada!

Stopping at a red light, Chris picks up his Bible and turns to the Old Testament book of Amos. "Here, for instance, in chapter five, the prophet says, 'You, Israel, you were supposed to take care of the poor and you're not doing it,' " Chris says. " 'You're using power and wealth to tilt the system in your favor.

In America today, there is nothing particularly remarkable about the financial pathways that lead from the public coffers to mega-preachers' lives of bounty.

Sing A Song Of Sixpence A Pocketful Of Lies

I've watched the seconds pat and nurse Their man; and seen him put to bed; With twenty guineas in his purse, And not an eye within his head. —J.H. Reynolds, The Fancy

Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.

I love you, Shanna. I want you to share my life and that which belongs to me. I want to build you a mansion, as you father did for your mother, as my parent did here. I want to give you children, with dark hair and light, and watch them grow, bathed in our love. I hav properties on the James. The land is good, and 'twill nourish our offsprings. It only waits your word to say where the house will be.

In choosing a bare bones existence, we are enriched, and can redefine success as an internal process rather than an outward display of wealth and power.

They wanted a girl who knew what it was like to acquire things out of amusement rather than need. Who sympathized with those whose lives were so pleasantly arranged that they hungered for beauty and meaning rather than food. The

It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene.

She was truly beautiful, though that was not what drew him to want to know more about her. This woman of wealth and privilege had something else about her—and inner beauty—which he couldn't quite define.

Those who still possessed means spent lavishly for the most extravagant diversions, as if they wanted a last fling while their pockets were still lined, and decency and the concern for one's fellows were lost in the frantic scramble to survive.

Two dollars is less than the cost of a gallon of gas, roughly equivalent to that of a half gallon of milk. Many Americans have spent more than that before they get to work or school in the morning. Yet in 2011, more than 4 percent of all households with children in the world's wealthiest nation were living in a poverty so deep that most Americans don't believe it even exists in this country.

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of the creative effort. —Franklin D. Roosevelt U.S. president

she had seen the poverty of the rich and the wealth of the poor, and the value of bringing the rich and poor together

If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.

People who say that money can't buy happiness just don't know where to shop.

Most Bolton students were scions of the city's wealthiest families. My crewe stuck out like hooker at church. We werent part of their pampered, priveliged world, and many of our classmates were quick to remind us of that fact. Taunting the "boat kids" was practically a varsity sport.

Pete drained his cup, then set it on the table. "In the words of that great humanitarian Jerry Maguire, 'Show me the money.

The woman matched the room. Pale pastel Chanel suit. Oscar de la Renta kitten heels. Diamond the size of a Krispy Kreme donut.

Hey, check this weirdo out." Hi was inspecting a bust on the mantel. "This face is ninety percent eyebrow. What do you want to bet he owned slaves?" Scowling to match the carving's expression, Hi spoke in a gravelly voice. "In my day, we ate the poor people. We had a giant outdoor grill, and we cooked up peasant steaks every Sunday."