Quotes About Riches

Rich doesn't guarantee smart.

She never had much in this life, but with the simplest things, she made her corner of the world as beautiful as any king's palace. We may lack riches, but the greatest fortune is what lies in our hearts.

Lakshmi, goddess of wealth

I enjoy my money, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I'd certainly rather be rich than poor.

La avaricia empieza cuando se acaba la pobreza

It might have been supposed that, like a princess in the Arabian Nights, Emilie was rich enough and beautiful enough to choose from among all the princes in the world. Her objections were each more preposterous than the last: one had too thick knees and was bow-legged, another was short-sighted, this one's name was Durand, that one limped, and almost all were too fat.

Wealth is the means and people are the ends. All our material riches will avail us little if we do not use them to expand the opportunities of our people. —JOHN F. KENNEDY, STATE OF THE UNION , JANUARY 1962

the more people possess, the greater their losses; so the rich are not as carefree as the poor. The higher people rise, the faster they fall, so the upper classes are not as secure as the common people. Association with city people is not as good as friendship with elderly peasants. Calling on upper-class mansions is not as good as getting to know peasant homes.

Man works to be wealthy, but gambles to be rich.

Much of Europes wealth comes from the mineral riches of the new world, which fed the coffers of the monarchies of Europe.

The world has enough for everybody, but some minorities, the descendants of the same people that crucified Christ, and of those that expelled Bolvar from here and in their own way crucified him . . . have taken control of the riches of the world.

It is no less ancient than a pestilent error wherewith many men (but they chiefly who abound in power and riches) persuade themselves, or (as I think more truly) go about to persuade, that right and wrong are distinguished not according to their own nature but by a certain vain opinion and custom of men.

Your Treasure House is in yourself, it contains all you need

You can tell what God thinks about money when you see the sort of people he gives it to. S. Lewin Northwood, Middlesex

and the money is so good, they become intoxicated not only with the riches—they become intoxicated with themselves.

The Book of Wisdom. Simab said: 'I shall sell the Book of Wisdom for a hundred gold pieces, and some people will say that it is cheap.' Yunus Marmar said to him: 'And I shall give away the key to understanding it, and almost none shall take it, even free of charge.

En lo profundo del mar hay riquezas incomparables. Pero si buscas seguridad, está en la orilla. Saadi, Jardín de Rosas.

Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare. But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.

Death and life have their determined appointments riches and honors depend upon heaven.

In order to honor God with your wealth, you first have to admit that you are rich. Most people won't do that. It's not normal.

Orson Welles's second 'I-did-it' should show once and for all that film making, radio and the stage are three different guys better kept separated. 'The Magnificent Ambersons' is one of those versions of the richest family in town during the good old days.

The desire for money may be an indication of greed, but I want to argue that greed is a much more subtle vice than simply the desire to be rich.

If any among you covet riches, let him endeavour to overcome, for the victorious not only preserve their own possessions but acquire those of the enemy.

To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.