Wealth Quotes

It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.

Josh Billings

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

Henry Wheeler Shaw

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

Karl Marx

Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more.

Ovid

I've been more bossed by my fortune than it has been bossed by me.

John P. Lippett

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Edmund Burke

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.

William Henry Channing

A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.

Robert Cecil

Man is a luxury loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, sluggish creature, barely energetic enough to obtain a bare subsistence. A society becomes stagnant when its people are too rational or too serious to be tempted by baubles.

Eric Hoffer

He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. Proverbs 28:20

Bible

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

Abraham Lincoln

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

Solon

Riches are a stronghold in the imagination of a rich man.

Solomon

In my hut this spring, there is nothing -- there is everything!

Sodo

Of the wealth of the world each has as much as they take.

Italian Proverb

If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.

Jane Austen

Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.

Henry David Thoreau

There are no absolutes, and your way is neither the only way nor the right way.

Stephen Richards

He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?

Oscar Wilde

Beautiful things like beautiful sins belong to the rich

Oscar Wilde