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Quotes About Riches

You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
~ Abraham Polonsky
Fame is a very good thing to have in the house, but cash is more convenient.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.
~ Ajahn Chah
You will find joy, frustration and sorrow in your quest. Never forget that friendship and loyalty are more precious than riches...Happiness can be brief, but it knows no time in the land of dreams.
~ Brian Jacques
I have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.
~ John D. Rockefeller
Wealth and poverty do not lie in a man's estate, but in men's souls.
~ Antisthenes
Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.
~ Leo Rosten
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
~ Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
Happiness is making the most of what you have, and riches is making the most of what you've got.
~ Rosamunde Pilcher
The inspired Scriptures make the clear distinction between false and true riches and make plain the reason why happiness is gained and fully enjoyed only by those who find true riches.
~ Joseph Franklin Rutherford
I mean to be too rich to lament or to feel anything of the sort. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.
~ Jane Austen
I have no problem with the concept of financial riches, but if you need to change the person you are in order to achieve that, I think you're taking too much of a gamble with your personal happiness.
~ Grant Hart
He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.
~ Samuel Johnson
Wealth hath never given happiness, but often hastened misery.
~ Martin Farquhar Tupper
It is impossible for human tongue to exaggerate the riches which a vision from God brings to the soul: it even bestows health and refreshment on the body.
~ Teresa of Avila
Health without money is halfe an ague.
~ George Herbert
Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them; and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.
~ Michel de Montaigne
There is just no reason why the richest nation in the world can't provide health care to all its people.
~ Christine Gregoire
We're the richest economy in the history of the world. For the majority of Americans not to get the benefits of this extraordinarily prosperous economy, there's something fundamentally wrong.
~ Robert Reich
Crassus was in the habit of maintaining that nobody should be called rich who was not able to maintain an army on his income.
~ Ronald Syme
Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history of the world have so many of those same people felt themselves so poor.
~ Lewis H. Lapham
pity them. Matthew 19:24.
~ Do not envy the rich
If I get home, I'll be so stinking rich, I'll be able to pay someone to do my hearing.
~ Suzanne Collins
I am fortunate to have been well paid for an almost pathological honesty.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel