Quotes About Riches

All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

I have been so copied by those people who have made fortunes that people assume I am that rich. But I did things for the excitement, the dare, the fact that it was new, not for the money. And too many times I was the first, not the beneficiary.

He knew that it is as difficult for a rich man to go to heaven as it is for a camel to go through the gate in Jerusalem called the Needle's.

My mamma has a diamond ring which cost forty pounds," she said. "And it is not a big one, either. If there were mines full of diamonds, people would be so rich it would be ridiculous." "Perhaps Sara will be so rich that she will be ridiculous," giggled Jessie. "She's ridiculous without being rich," Lavinia sniffed.

A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.

I have affirmed one truth I will carry with me for all time: Apart from the dear Lord Himself, my children and my integrity are my greatest treasure, and having them safe with me now, I am the richest man in the world.

These are illusions of popular history which a successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumphs; a good deed is its own reward; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness … —From the Instruction Manual: Missionaria Protectiva

Halleck murmured: "'For they shall suck of the abundance of the seas and of the treasure hid in the sand.

These are illusions of popular history which a successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumphs; a good deed is its own reward; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness . . . —FROM THE INSTRUCTION MANUAL:

Too bad I can't afford to patent it. I can make a fortune. But again,I have a fortune. -Batman, Year One comic.

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

Nobody ever wins by the cavalry coming to rescue you. It isn't a question of you're happy if you get married, or you get thin, or you get rich, because I've known lots of thin, rich, married people who are absolutely miserable.

There's never going to be an economy rich enough or a government program strong enough to compensate for the lack of a stable family and the absence of self-discipline.

I was rich in those days, for a week I had everything. I wish I'd known you then.

There is all the difference in the world between treasure and money.

Investors long for steady waters, but paradoxically, the opportunities are richest when markets turn turbulent.

When lovers are in love, they don't diminish. When wanderers wander, they do not diminish. The world lays itself out beautiful before them; a rich tapestry to explore; with love in abundance. But for this, a wanderer must be favored by Fortune. Fortune is not "riches," it is "Poetic Beauty" that comes by surprise!—like a ship coming in from Dover…

Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.

In the richest nation on earth, good healthcare for everyone should be a basic demand of all Christians who respect the sanctity of every human life.

to simply know of riches will never materially benefit us. We must make them our own. All fulness dwells in Christ. It is only as we 'apprehend' (which means take hold or take in) Christ through the Holy Spirit can it be possible for these spiritual riches to become ours.

Happiness is making the most of what you have, and riches is making the most of what you've got.

He was rich, that she knew. The rich aren't difficult to find, she thought, they live in big wika-iganan.

And she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal

She did not find these riches (of fulfillment). They were a gift from God.