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Quotes About Riches

Pearls from the soul are more precious than diamonds from the mine.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The greatest among you are those with the greatest love. The richest among you are those with the most joy.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
You can have everything and feel nothing.
~ Matt Haig
Puedes tenerlo todo y no sentir nada».
~ Matt Haig
Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.
~ Unknown
Whatever we have in the world, we must see to it that it be honestly come by, for we cannot be truly rich, nor long rich, with that which is not. The
~ Matthew Henry
Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie.
~ Max Beerbohm
He is a man. He is governed by power and riches and by his testicles.
~ Unknown
I have now reigned above fifty years in victory or peace," said the Caliph Abd al-Rahman I, the eighth-century ruler of Iberia, "beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to have been wanting to my felicity. In this situation, I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot; they amount to fourteen.
~ Maxwell Maltz
The record company's worst fear is that you'll fall in love or get rich.
~ Maynard James Keenan
The poor work to make money for the rich, the middle class work to make money for themselves, the rich make money from other people's work.
~ Unknown
Cheerful poor is rich with a smile, sulky rich is poor with a bullion of gold.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Even the poorest street is rich with people on it and even the richest street is poor without people on it!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Literature is a mountain made of gold in this poor world!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The poor looking shepherd of the dessert is in substance very rich with all the magical treasures of the desert.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
It is written: 'They have become rich in all virtues' (1 Cor. 1:5). Truly, this cannot happen unless they first become poor in all things. Whoever desires to be given everything, must first give everything away.
~ Meister Eckhart
I haven't paid for anything since I became famous.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
Riches cover a multitude of woes.
~ Menander
I am too rich already, for my eyes mint gold. - Coloured Money
~ Mervyn Peake
The greatest misfortune for a poor country is that, instead of producing wealth, it produces rich people. But rich people without wealth. In fact, it would be better to call them moneyed rather than rich: a rich person is one who possesses the means of production. A rich person is someone who generates money and provides jobs. A moneyed person is someone who quite simply has some cash. Or rather, he thinks he has. For, in reality, it's the cash that has him.
~ Mia Couto
Os desafios são maiores que a esperança? Mas nós não podemos senão ser optimistas e fazer aquilo que os brasileiros chamam de levantar, sacudir a poeira e dar a volta por cima. O pessimismo é um luxo para os ricos.
~ Mia Couto
It is the sensibility of Ecclesiastes: "I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
~ Michael J. Sandel
No matter how rich you become, how famous or how powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.
~ Unknown
Charity fits the economy of scarcity, because it supports the blasphemous myth that the rich are rich because they deserve to be, and their riches are theirs to deal with as they please. With such charity, we are not worthy to tell the story of manna in the wilderness, to pretend to eat together at the Lord's Supper, or claim the Year of Jubilee as our own.
~ Unknown