Quotes About Riches

This you may see that neither wisdom nor riches, beauty nor trickery, strength nor boldness may share power equally with Venus, for as she wishes she may guide the world.

He who covets is a poor wretch, because he longs for what he can not have. But he who has naught, and covets naught, is rich, although you may think him but a lowly knave.

Our inherited legacy of adaptatios is literally precious. Even the poorest parents give their children vast riches, in the form of senses, emotions, and mental faculties that have been optimized through millions of years of product development.

Our inherited legacy of adaptations is literally precious. Even the poorest parents give their children vast riches, in the form of senses, emotions, and mental faculties that have been optimized through millions of years of product development.

In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

Wealth is a power. With wealth many things are possible

In poor Rosamond's mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in.

there are two fundamentally different kinds of wealth:

In what was called the second siege of Leningrad, thousands died, but Putin and his partners in crime got rich. Then Putin killed even more Russians when he had the FSB explode bombs in apartment buildings in Moscow in 1999 to give himself the pretext to seize dictatorial powers.

Truly blessed are those whose hearts know the peace of God; otherwise, the poor and the rich, the beggar and the king are all alike.

For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

The renown that riches and beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

The new recruits, in process of time, began to join in an encounter without fear; they saw that such as fled were taken prisoners or slain; that the bravest were the safest; that liberty, their country, and parents, are defended, and glory and riches acquired, by arms. Thus the new and old troops soon became as one body, and the courage of all was rendered equal.

Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.

I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.

For what is worth in anythingBut so much money as 'twill bring?

Without economy none can be rich, and with it few will be poor.

But it is pretty to see what money will do.

Gives me some kind of content to remember how painful it is sometimes to keep money, as well as to get it.

Wants are my best riches, for I have these supplied by Christ.

Andromeda in a beautiful exchange, 'Psapfo, why ignore Afroditi rich in blessings?

I have no riches but my thoughts, Yet these are wealth enough for me

I have no riches but my thoughts, Yet these are wealth enough for me; My thoughts of you are golden coins Stamped in the mint of memory; And I must spend them all in song, For thoughts, as well as gold, must be Left on the hither side of death To gain their immortality.