Quotes About Riches

Gold is my favorite color.

A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.

I have a love for anything gold.

The table groans under the heavy and blood-bought luxuries gathered with painstaking care, at home and abroad. Fields, forests, rivers and seas, are made tributary here. Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste.

Some are shy of going to the source For riches begin in the sea.

Behold! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take it from me. I wish to spread it and bestow it, until the wise have once more become joyous in their folly, and the poor happy in their riches.

The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions, who has, as it were, antennae for all types of men---as well as his great moments of grand harmony---a rare accident even in us! A sort of planetary motion---

A small revenge is humaner than no revenge at all. And if the punishment be not also a right and an honor to the transgressor, I do not like your punishing. Nobler is it to own oneself in the wrong than to establish one's right, especially if one be in the right. Only, one must be rich enough to do so. I do not like your cold justice; out of the eye of your judges there always glanceth the executioner and his cold steel. Tell me: where find we justice, which is love with seeing eyes?

A little poison now and then: that maketh pleasant dreams. And much poison at last for a pleasant death. One still worketh, for work is a pastime. But one is careful lest the pastime should hurt one. One no longer becometh poor or rich; both are too burdensome. Who still wanteth to rule? Who still wanteth to obey? Both are too burdensome. No shepherd, and one herd! Every one wanteth the same; every one is equal: he who hath other sentiments goeth voluntarily into the madhouse

No, not rich, he said. I am a poor man with money, not the same thing.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

He that is rich is wise.

I pray as follows: May justice reign, may the laws not be broken, may the wise men be poor, and the poor men rich, without sin.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work... men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel like a billionaire without paying taxes.

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

If you ever get rich and famous, by definition you are special. You have done something special, and therefore you start to behave special. Then if the floor drops out, and you become down and out, you have a really new perspective.

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.