Some Wealth Quotes

"Common sense among men of fortune is rare." Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)

"He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately. " Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)

"It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous. " Titus Livy

"The rich man's sons inherits cares; The bank may break, the factory burn, A breath may burst his bubble shares, And soft, white hands could hardly earn A living that would serve his turn." James Russell Lowell

"Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses, to whom he affordeth nothing else that is good." Martin Luther

"Infinite riches in a little room." Christopher Marlowe

"The little sister of the Poor . . . . The Poor, and their concerns, she has Monopolized, because of which It falls to me to labor as A Little Brother of the Rich." Edward Sanford Martin

"Those who we strive to benefit Dear to our hearts soon grow to be; I love my Rich, and I admit That they are very good to me. Succor the poor, my sisters,--I While heaven shall still vouchsafe me health Will strive to share and mollify The trials of abounding wealth." Edward Sanford Martin

"But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties." Ik Marvel (pseudonym of Donald G. Mitchell)

"Let none admire That riches grow in hell; that soil may best Deserve the precious bane." John Milton

"I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice." Edward Moore

"Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth." Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

"A faithful man shall abound with blessings; but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent." Bible

"Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them." Bible

"I have mental joys and mental health, Mental friends and mental wealth, I've a wife that I love and that loves me; I've all but riches bodily." William Blake

"Since all the riches of this world May be gifts from the devil and earthly kings, I should suspect that I worshipped the devil If I thanked my God for worldly things." William Blake

"But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate, When we lock up our lives for wealth, the gold key comes too late." Will Carleton

"Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go." Thomas Carlyle

"Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community." Andrew Carnegie

"The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society." Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)

"Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all." Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

"I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker. The example of great and pure individuals is the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and irresistibly invites abuse. Can anyone imagine M anyone imagine Moses, Jesus or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?" Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

"Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If your Riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to t'other world?" Benjamin Franklin

"Who hath not heard the rich complain Of surfeits, and corporeal pain? He barr'd from every use of wealth, Envies the ploughman's strength and health." John Gay

"The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the general stock." Henry George

"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars." Henry George

"And to hie him home, at evening's close, To sweet repast, and calm repose. . . . . From toil we wins his spirits light, From busy day the peaceful night; Rich, from the very want of wealth, In heaven's best treasures, peace and health." Thomas Gray

"Dame Nature gave him comeliness and health, And Fortune (for a passport) gave him wealth." Walter Harte

"For wealth, without contentment, climbs a hill, To feel those tempests which fly over ditches." George Herbert

"It cannot be repeated too often that the safety of great wealth with us lies in obedience to the new version of the Old World axiom--Richesse oblige." Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

"Base wealth preferring to eternal praise." Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")

"These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!" Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")

"Know from the bounteous heavens all riches flow; And what man gives, the gods by man bestow." Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")

"Riches either serve or govern the possessor." Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)

"For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches. " Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)

"Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed" Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)

"And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold." Richard Hovey

"We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice." Samuel Johnson

"Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns." Ben Jonson

"Private credit is wealth; public honor is security; the feather that adorns the royal bird supports its flight; strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth." Junius

"You often ask me, Priscus, what sort of person I should be, if I were to become suddenly rich and powerful. Who can determine what would be his future conduct? Tell me, if you were to become a lion, what sort of a lion would you be?" Marcus Valerius Martial

"A little house well fill'd, a little land well till'd, and a little wife well will'd, are great riches." Anynomous

"There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth, Without one fool or flatterer at your board, Without one hour of sickness or disgust." John Armstrong

"That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life." I Timothy

"And again I say unto you, 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." Bible

"Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven." Bible

"If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it." Socrates

"He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature." Socrates

"He does not possess wealth that allows it to possess him." Benjamin Franklin

"The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money." Benjamin Franklin

"The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application." Miguel De Cervantes

"We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty." Winston Churchill

"This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor." John Fitzgerald Kennedy

"There's nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger." Wilson Mizner

"Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress." Francis Bacon

"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone." Henry David Thoreau

"Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health." Anynomous

"Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broken in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them." R. Venning