logo

Quotes About Riches

If dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold!
~ Charles Lamb
If the poor man cannot always get meat, the rich man cannot always digest it.
~ Henry Giles
No man is rich whose expenditure exceeds his means; and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.
~ Thomas Haliburton
Health is ... a blessing that money cannot buy.
~ Izaak Walton
It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.
~ Josh Billings
Avarice is as destitute of what it has as poverty is of what it has not.
~ Publilius Syrus
For the multitude of worldly friends profiteth not, nor may strong helpers anything avail, nor wise counselors give profitable counsel, nor the cunning of doctors give consolation, nor riches deliver in time of need, nor a secret place to defend, if Thou, Lord, do not assist, help, comfort, counsel, inform, and defend.
~ Thomas a Kempis
Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold
~ Thomas Hood
Few rich men own their own property. Their property owns them.
~ Robert G. Ingersoll
Avarice hoards itself poor; charity gives itself rich.
~ German proverb
I was not only a billionaire but the richest man in Turkey. It's a great feeling, but your responsibilities increase.
~ Husnu Ozyegin
There are no riches like the sweetness of content, nor poverty comparable to the want of patience.
~ Roger Chamberlain
It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money. It is clear, they have not value for what they spend.
~ Samuel Johnson
I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.
~ Stephen King
Three reasons not to have a [spending] plan: 1. You're rich enough to buy anything you want and still have plenty of money left over. 2. I forget the other two.
~ Jane Bryant Quinn
I love energy. I love it. And I pursue it, and I want more of it. Physical and mental energy, to me, are the greatest riches of human life. And TM is like a free account of an endless amount of it.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
He who wants to get rich wants to get rich quickly.
~ Juvenal
There's nothing wrong with being a pretty girl, because you want to be, desirable. There's nothing wrong with that, but you should have a plan B even if that is getting pregnant by a rich dude.
~ Pauly Shore
All wars are fought for the acquisition of wealth
~ Socrates
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
~ Moliere
We went there to serve God, and also to get rich.
~ Bernal Diaz del Castillo
He'd lapped at her ankles like a lovesick pup, and she'd been exactly what she was now, a woman born too beautiful and too rich to worry about a small thing like integrity.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
If I get home, I'll be so stinking rich, I'll be able to pay someone to do my hearing.
~ Suzanne Collins
Never mind. If I get home, I'll be so stinking rich, I'll be able to pay someone to do my hearing.
~ Suzanne Collins