Quotes About Wealth

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Fine thoughts are wealth, for the right use of which Men are and ought to be accountable,-- If not to Thee, to those they influence.

Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.

It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness.

We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.

Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him.

Little does the sick man consult his own interests, who makes his physician his heir.

Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain.

A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year.

Bring a lawsuit against a man who can pay; the poor man's acts are not worth the expense

Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold, So that men ever seek for more, that they may have the most.

Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design.

If the gatherer gathers too-much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest; swells the estate, but kills the owner. Nature hates, monopolies and exceptions.

There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.

The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it.

It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them; but on the contrary, men have dived for them because they fetch a high price.

Hell of a thing when a man's got good health, plenty of money and absolutely nothing to do.

Man's envy is at its most intense where all are almost equal; his calls for redistribution are loudest when there is virtually nothing to redistribute.

The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.

That man is richest who's pleasure are cheapest.

Men will tell you sometimes that "money's hard." That shows it was not made to eat, I say.... Some of those who sank with the steamer the other day found out that money was heavy too.

One who knew how to appropriate the true value of this world would be the poorest man in it. The poor rich man! all he has is whathe has bought.

A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government.

He is the rich man, and enjoys the fruit of his riches, who summer and winter forever can find delight in his own thoughts.