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100 Quotes for 'Wealth' in the Database.

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Riches are deservedly despised by a man of honor, because a well-stored chest intercepts the truth. [Lat., Opes invisae merito sunt forti viro, Quia dives arca veram laudem intercipit.]
Author: Phaedrus (Thrace of Macedonia)
Source: Fables (IV, 12, 1)
I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man. [Lat., Nemini credo, qui large blandus est dives pauperi.]
Author: Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Source: Aulularia (II, 2, 30)
Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Epistles of Horace (ep. I, bk. I, l. 103)
What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little?
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Moral Essays (ep. III, l. 79)
Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Moral Essays (ep. III, l. 79)
All gold and silver rather turn to dirt, An 'tis no better reckoned but of these Who worship dirty gods.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Cymbeline (Arviragus at III, vi)
If thou art rich, thou'rt poor, For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows, Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey, And death unloads thee.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Measure for Measure (Vincentio, the Duke at III, i)
All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told; Many a man his life hath sold; But my outside to behold.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Morocco at II, vii), requoting a proverb
O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Merry Wives of Windsor (Anne Page at III, iv)
Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends, An incarnation of fat dividends.
Author: Charles Sprague
Source: Curiosity (st. 25)
No, he was no such charlatan-- Count de Hoboken Flash-in-the-Pan-- Full of gasconade and bravado, But a regular, rich Don Rataplane, Santa Claus de la Muscavado, Senor Grandissimo Bastinado! His was the rental of half Havana And all Matanzas; and Santa Ana, Rich as he was, could hardly hold A candle to light the mines of gold Our Cuban owned.
Author: Edmund C. Stedman
Source: The Diamond Wedding (st. 7)
The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it.
Author: Sir Richard Steele
Source: in the "Tatler", no. 203
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
Author: Jonathan Swift
Source: Letter to Miss Vanhomrigh
No good man ever became suddenly rich. [Lat., Repente dives nemo factus est bonus.]
Author: Syrus (Publilius Syrus)
Source: Maxims
He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he be exalted above his neighbors because he hath more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine!
Author: Jeremy Taylor
Source: Holy Living--Of Humility (ch. II, sc. 4)
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone.
Author: Jeremy Taylor
Source: Holy Living--Of Humility (ch. II, sc. 4)
I've been rich and I've been poor; rich is better.
Author: Jeremy Taylor
Source: Holy Living--Of Humility (ch. II, sc. 4)
Can wealth give happiness? look round and see What gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, The mind annihilates, and calls for more.
Author: Edward Young
Source: Love of Fame (satire V, l. 394)
Much learning shows how little mortals know: Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy.
Author: Edward Young
Source: Night Thoughts (night VI, l. 519)
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?
Author: Don Marquis
Source: None
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
Author: Edmund Burke
Source: None
The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
Source: None
A learned man has always wealth in himself.
Author: Latin Proverb
Source: None
Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart.
Author: Arabian Proverb
Source: None
'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.
Author: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Source: None
I have no riches but my thoughts Yet these are wealth enough for me.
Author: Sara Teasdale
Source: None
Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
Author: Plato
Source: None
Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Source: None
As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.
Author: Proverb
Source: None
A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.
Author: Spanish Proverb
Source: None
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Source: None
Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health.
Author: Source Unknown
Source: None
Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broken in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.
Author: R. Venning
Source: None
Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: None
Whether you wind up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends on the kind of chick you married
Author: Wall Street Journal
Source: None
There's nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger.
Author: Wilson Mizner
Source: None
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
Author: Juvenal
Source: None
This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Source: None
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
Author: Andrew Carnegie
Source: None
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
Author: Winston Churchill
Source: None
Without a rich heart wealth is an ugly beggar.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
Author: Miguel De Cervantes
Source: None
Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Source: None
The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Source: None
He does not possess wealth that allows it to possess him.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Source: None
He who multiplies riches multiplies cares.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Source: None
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
Author: Socrates
Source: None
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Source: None
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
Author: Socrates
Source: None

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