Quotes About Riches

Gold gives the appearance of beauty even to ugliness; but everything becomes frightful with poverty.

There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.

Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

The poor man finds happiness in economy; the rich man, misery.

If you think about it, Bruce Wayne's only superpower was tremendous wealth.

For years to come the debris of a convulsed world will beset our steps. It will require a purpose stronger than any man and worthy of all men to calm and inspirit us. A sane society whose riches are happy children, men and women, beautiful with peace and creative activity, is not going to be ordained for us. We must make it ourselves.

I spent more money on one robe than guys spend in five years.

Over the years I've learned being rich doesn't really have anything to do with money. That's being wealthy.

When you grow up in life and you're poor, and because you're an athlete or you got rich overnight in music, unless you have access to financial advice or for the transition or matriculation of that process, then of course, you're going to go broke.

My heavenly bank, my heavenly bank, The house of God's treasure and store. I have plenty in here; I'm a real millionaire.

Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

On the evening of her eighteenth birthday, Maddy opened her journal and made a list of the jewels and precious stones she'd held. Gold, diamond, emerald; ruby, turquoise, pearl; amber, jade, marble… There were some she had forgotten. Beneath these she listed what she thought were the most perfect tastes and smells. Coffee, cinnamon, peaches; vanilla, honey, basil; baking bread, fresh bread, toasting bread.

A horse is worth more than riches.

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

But just a minute, Mr. Poor Man; consider whether you can, in fact, enter. What if you're poor, and also happen to be greedy? What if you're sunk in destitution, and at the same time on fire with avarice? So if that's what you're like, whoever you are that are poor, it's not because you haven't wanted to be rich, but because you haven't been able to. So God doesn't inspect your means, but he observes your will.

Theft is punished by Thy law, O Lord, and the law written in the hearts of men, which iniquity itself effaces not. For what thief will abide a thief? not even a rich thief, one stealing through want. Yet I lusted to thieve, and did it, compelled by no hunger, nor poverty, but through a cloyedness of well-doing, and a pamperedness of iniquity. For I stole that, of which I had enough, and much better. Nor cared I to enjoy what I stole, but joyed in the theft and sin itself.

All things considered, he stuck to his basic attitude of enjoying wealth by knowing that he had it, rather than by making a great display of it.

Di questi tempi è duro far gli spiritosi se non si è miliardari.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

We are tired who follow after fantasy and truth that flies: You with only look and laughter stain our hearts with richest dyes.

A rich person who has no love in his heart is poorer than a poor person who has no money in his pocket.

Whoever said that money didn't buy happiness was a damn fool. A damn fool who'd never been poor.

Incluso llegaron horas en que deseaba no haber oído nunca la música ni haber visto los colores. No obstante, si la hubiesen dado a elegir, no habría renunciado a ese recuerdo por nada del mundo. Aunque se hubiera muerto por ello. Pues eso era lo que vivía ahora: que hay riquezas que lo matan a uno si no puede compartirlas.»