Quotes About Riches

our material riches unfortunately imply a spiritual, cultural, and moral poverty that are perhaps far greater than we see.

Suppose that my poverty be a secret hunger for spiritual riches: suppose that by pretending to empty myself, pretending to be silent, I am really trying to cajole God into enriching me with some experience--what then? Then everything becomes a distraction.

Why should I want to be rich when You were poor? Why should I desire to be famous and powerful in the eyes of men when some of those who exalted the false prophet and stoned the true rejected You and nailed You to the Cross? Why should I cherish in my heart a hope that devours me--the hope for perfect happiness in this life--when such hope, doomed to frustration, is nothing but despair?

Maxine recoils, only partly out of the classic accountant's allergy to real folding money

In the Occident the city has been the greatest opportunity and the worst influence; a place of creation and decay, of freedom and subjection, of riches and poverty, of splendor and misery, of communion and lonesomeness—an optimal milieu for talent, character, vice and corruption. Eric Hoffer

Moi je me marre et je suis pauvre, vous vous emmerdez et vous êtes riche.

Who's Mr Terreur ?" she wondered. "He must be the owner of that steel company. He's really rich — I heard he's got a bunch of vacation homes in Raputoa." "Oh, that evil greedy rich guy. He really made a killing thanks to the war, right ?" "Allison. Do you ever not call a rich person evil and greedy ?" "What, am I wrong ?" "...Anyway, what should we do ?

The rich of this world will vanish like smoke, and no memory of their past pleasures will remain. But even in their lifetime they do not enjoy them without bitterness, weariness and fear, for the very things whence they derive their pleasures often carry with them the seeds of sorrow.

For example, "the richest Americans, those earning more than $ 10 million annually, reported levels of personal happiness only slightly greater than the office staffs and blue-collar workers they employ.

When displaying the riches of God's love and pleasing him is more important than holding onto worldly things and pleasing yourself, it becomes increasingly natural to respond to conflict graciously, wisely, and with self-control.

what was Abraham's blessing. Well, we know it was a threefold blessing. First, God promised Abraham that He was going to make him rich (Gen. 12:2,3; 13:2).

O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, Which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour.

How beauteous are rouleaus! how charming chests Containing ingots, bags of dollars, coins (Not of old victors, all whose heads and crests Weigh not the thin ore where their visage shines, But) of fine unclipt gold, where dully rests Some likeness, which the glittering cirque confines, Of modern, reigning, sterling, stupid stamp;-- Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

The wealthy have nothing left except money.

I would rather have a good education and no money, than to have a fortune and be ignorant.

Pickering: Have you no morals, man?Doolittle: Can't afford them, Governor.

What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

Come sempre all'indomani di ogni catastrofe, ci sarebbero stati nuovi ricchi, uomini pronti a comprare il piacere pagandolo a caro prezzo, perché il loro era denaro facile, ottenuto senza fatica, e l'amore sarebbe stato sempre lo stesso.

But what could I want with riches? The true wealth is the love of one's people.

TRADERS … With psychohistoric inevitability, economic control of the Foundation grew. The traders grew rich; and with riches came power … It is sometimes forgotten that Hober Mallow began life as an ordinary trader. It is never forgotten that he ended it as the first of the Merchant Princes

After love, the worst fixation is gold

Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.

And he (King David) died in a good old age, full of days, riches and honour.