Quotes About Riches

They have made enough money to acquire other assets. Again, it does pay to be generous.

So for most people, the reason they don't win financially is because the fear of losing money is far greater than the joy of being rich.

The more people you're indebted to, the poorer you are

lejanas. Y en esos sueños era más rica que en la realidad, porque las cosas que se ven quedan atrás, pero las que no se ven son eternas.

Christopher Columbus could greedily avow before those Most Catholic Monarchs of Spain that "gold is most excellent - with gold is treasure made; he who has it can do whatever he wants.

I see war as that insane enterprise wherein men dig up the riches of the earth and hurl them at one another. —ATTRIBUTED TO JOSEPH DANIEL HARRINGTON

No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.

The desire for knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

But desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. The

But desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. The more my uncle Toby pored over his map, the more he took a liking to it!—by the same process and electrical assimilation, as I told you, through which I ween the souls of connoisseurs themselves, by long friction and incumbition, have the happiness, at length, to get all be-virtu'd—be-pictured,—be-butterflied, and be-fiddled.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

It had been a good day, all things considered. I had managed rather well on my own. I opened Grandfather's Bible. This is what it would be like when I had my own shop, or when I traveled abroad. I would always read before sleeping. One day, I'd be so rich I would have a library full of novel to choose from. But I would always end the evening with a Bible passage.

I knew the poor, I knew the hideous death they die, when famine lays its bleak hand on the door; I knew the rich, sated with merriment, who yet are sad.

There is only one science, love, one riches, love, only one policy, love. To make love is all the law and the prophets.

Health is wealth but being wealthy does not mean one is healthy.

Health is wealth but wealth is not health

You know they say money can't buy happiness. Give me 50 bucks and watch me smile

A society which reverences the attainment of riches as the supreme felicity will naturally be disposed to regard the poor as damned ... if only to justify itself for making their life a hell.

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches; which, in their eye, is never so complete as when they appear to possess those decisive marks of opulence which nobody can possess but themselves.

The clock over the mantel in the beau parlor at the Milbank House ticked

The haves are the haves until they have not." Now, Savattini understood the riddle.

Wealth unused might as well not exist.

Wealth not used is of no value at all.

Simplicity is not the opposite of wealth. It is the door to the riches you already own