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Quotes About Riches

They that haue much, feare much to loose thereby, And store of cares doth follow riches store.
~ Edmund Spenser
Oranges and lemons Say the bells of St Clements You owe me five farthings, Say the bells of St Martin's When will you pay me Say the bells of Old Bailey When I grow rich Say the bells of Shoreditch When will that be Say the bells of Stepney I do not know Says the great bell of Bow
~ Edward Rutherfurd
Mind you, what is there to do with money except spend it when you've got it or be bitter about it when haven't?
~ Edward St. Aubyn
Darius Madden had more money than he needed and almost as much money as he wanted.
~ Albert Payson Terhune
A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
~ Alexander O. Smith
We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
~ Alexander Pope
We may see the small Value God has for Riches, by the People he gives them to." [ Thoughts on Various Subjects , 1727]
~ Alexander Pope
If you want to know what God thinks about money just look at the people He gives it to.
~ Alexander Pope
Do not value money for any more nor any less than its worth; it is a good servant but a bad master.
~ Alexandre Dumas fils
Hope is the anchor of our souls. I know of no one who is not in need of hope - young or old, strong or weak, rich or poor.
~ James E. Faust
If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet.
~ Bill Gates
There are plenty of miserable millionaires all over the place.
~ Peter Mayle
I pay myself three, three and half million - which is plenty of money, c'mon.
~ John Schnatter
There are a lot of lonely people on the planet that have a lot of money in their pocket and no place to go on a Friday night.
~ Alexandra C. Pelosi
The only thing Chelsea and Manchester City have in common is the fact that both clubs have a lot of money.
~ Shaun Wright-Phillips
Assets are cold.
~ John Kluge
I have a lot of sapphires in my collection.
~ Erika Jayne
It's only a matter of time before the English clubs become a lot more competitive in Europe, if not dominant, because our league is, by far, the richest league in the world.
~ Gary Lineker
As a child, as far as I was concerned, my dad had an amazing job, and we had all the money we needed. My life was so fun and carefree that I didn't realize at all that we weren't rich - until I met someone rich. Still, I've never met a rich kid who grew up as happy as I did.
~ Artie Lange
I like to be surrounded by splendid things.
~ Freddie Mercury
We have new ways to be born, humane and symbolic ways to die, different ways to be rich... new ways to be human and to discover what we are to each other.
~ Marilyn Ferguson
I don't like gross monetary inequities. I firmly believe that the wrong people and the wrong professions are being rewarded, and rewarded absurdly, and that the hardest work the obscenely rich do is ensuring that they preserve their privileges, status symbols, and bloated bank accounts.
~ Michael Dirda
I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
~ Red Cloud
Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
~ Rex Stout