Quotes About Riches

Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.

For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.

For often evil men are rich, and good men poor; But we will not exchange with them Our virtue for their wealth since one abides always, While riches change their owners every day.

A man can well afford to be as bold as brass, my good fellow, when he gets gold in exchange!

He that is rich is wise, And all men learned poverty despise.

If a man is wise, he gets rich an' if he gets rich, he gets foolish, or his wife does. That's what keeps the money movin' around.

Being is good, but getting rich is better.... If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as poor Caligula.

Men living in democratic times have many passions, but most of their passions either end in the love of riches, or proceed from it.

Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable.

The art of getting riches consists very much in thrift. All men are not equally qualified for getting money, but it is in the power of every one alike to practice this virtue.

Those born blind cannot see; similarly blind are those in the grip of lust. Proud men have no perception of evil; and those bent on acquiring riches see no sin in their actions.

The dullest man in the world is charming beyond belief when he's pouring gold coins from one hand to the other.

I'm a very wealthy man.

Men honor property above all else; it has the greatest power in human life.

When God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings standing by, 'Let us,'said he,'pour on him all we can: Let the world's riches, which disperse' d lie, Contract into a span'.

If all men were rich, all men would be poor.

As long as there is poverty in this world, no man can be totally rich even if he has a billion dollars.

Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie.

I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it's harder for a rich man to get into Heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.

The man's got more money than God, and he sends you a bag of coffee?

We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.

The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.

One who knew how to appropriate the true value of this world would be the poorest man in it. The poor rich man! all he has is whathe has bought.

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.