Quotes About Riches

If you desire wisdom like money and buried treasures, then you'll find it!

Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.

Few of us will ever be famous, I can tell you none of us will be rich. But we will have more important riches –the joy of making the beautiful music.

Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.

You can be a rich scumbag just as easily as a poor scumbag, or you can be a decent human being either way. Money's got nothing to do with it. It's nice to have, but it's not what makes you who you are.

Kakva korist od bogatstva i sjaja ako u sebi osje?aš bijedu i sirotinju?

Pero es que los ricos aunque estén muy enamorados, son muy prudentes en lo relativo a sus riquezas.

Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of 'speculation'; but which ought to be called Gambling.

Not to say people shouldn't get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many artists have been making money without magic.

At this point I have enough money to live 25 lifetimes. You couldn't spend the money I've accrued now.

'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches.

Historically, art has always had a market. When one medieval fiefdom defeated another they would drag back its jewels, gold, tapestries and art objects as the spoils of war. Art equaled power, riches and culture.

A live broke man is 'luckier' than a dead rich man.

Honor, riches, marriage-blessing Long continuance, and increasing, Hourly joys be still upon you!

He loved her for what she was - rich. He worshiped the ground her family struck oil on.

The rich man is not one who is in possession of much, but one who gives much.

Earthly riches are like the reed. Its roots are sunk in the swamp, and its exterior is fair to behold; but inside it is hollow. If a man leans on such a reed, it will snap off and pierce his soul.

There is nothing that making men rich and strong but that which they carry inside of them. True wealth is of the heart, not of the hand.

With gold a man can do anything. It even sends souls to paradise.

The only difference between a rich man and a poor man, is that the poor man suffers uncomfortably, while the rich man suffers comfortably.

When all a man has is worldly wealth, he is poor indeed.

Wealth accumulates, and men decay.

He is the richest man in the esteem of the world who has gotten the most. He is the richest man in the esteem of Heaven who has given the most.

There are those who say that children make a rich man poor. No, they have it backward. Children make a poor man rich. A rich man can't take his riches to heaven, but I'm taking my children