Quotes About Riches

The income of the world's 500 richest people exceeds the cumulative income of the world's 416 million poorest people. —UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her egg and then cackles.

The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness.

The two poorest men in the world are buckled together at the opposite sides of the circle. The man who has so much money that he does not know what to do with it and the man who has no money at all touch each other, as you will find; and one is about as poor as the other.

I knew what it was like to be poor, and that once you had become rich, anything was better than being poor again.

I know that man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor one for the alms of my guilt.

Riches, the dumb god that giv'st all men tongues, / That canst do nought, and yet mak'st men do all things; / The price of souls; even hell, with thee to boot, / Is made worth heaven!

Riches are in fortune A greater good than wisdom is in nature.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his who enjoys it.

Contentment makes poor men rich, Discontent makes rich men poor.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

The poor have little, beggars none, the rich too much, enough not one.

The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her outgoes are greater than her incomes.

In all our cares about worldly treasures, let us steadily bear in mind that riches possessed by children who do not truly serve God are likely to prove snares that may more grievously entangle them in that spirit of selfishness and exaltation which stands in opposition to real peace and happiness, and renders those who submit to the influence of it enemies to the cross of Christ.

Growing richer every day, for as rich and poor are relative terms, when the rich are growing poor, it is pretty much the same as if the poor were growing rich. Nobody is poor when the distinction between rich and poor is destroyed.

It's honestly true that money means nothing to me.

Paris Hilton

geography. In those days, Run was the most talked about island in the world, a place of such fabulous wealth that Eldorado's gilded riches seemed tawdry by comparison.

Millions of dollars later, and neither of them were happy. Money is wasted on the rich.

Millions of dollars later, and neither of them were happy. Money is wasted on the rich. We

I felt for the first time the premonitory of loneliness.It was all fantastic, and yet, and yet...He might be a poor lover, but I was a poor man. He had in his hand the infinite riches of respectability

Ah yes, jobs. Once upon a time, souls were traded for immortality or riches. Now we are bought and sold with the promise of jobs. The human spirit is devalued currency. How the devil must be laughing.