A tax is always a sacrifice which the government demands of individuals.While it only lessens every one's personal eÇŒoyments, it only shifts… — Antoine Destutt de Tracy Copy Share Image
For often evil men are rich, and good men poor; But we will not exchange with them Our virtue for their wealth… — Solon Copy Share Image
Whoever commands the sea, commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
“If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
God of deep waters and infinite riches, challenge me to go where I fear, to do what is difficult and what I… — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
“If my heart is set on pursuing real treasures, my mind must be fixed solely on the privilege of enjoying them and… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The art of getting riches consists very much in thrift. All men are not equally qualified for getting money, but it is… — Benjamin Copy Share Image
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is only by the abolition of the State, by the conquest of perfect liberty by the individual, by free agreement, association,… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want… — Red Cloud Copy Share Image
Any 'Christians' who take for themselves any more than the plain necessaries of life, live in an open habitual denial of the… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Democracy is nothing but the Tyranny of Majorities, the most abominable tyranny of all, for it is not based on the authority… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
Conservatism is affluent and openhanded, but there is a cunning juggle in riches. I observe that they take somewhat for everythingthey give.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I know not whether there exists such a thing as a coin stamped with a pair of pinions; but I wish this… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
Filming 'The Road to Riches' was surprisingly difficult for me. I learned that going back to career successes and failures can be… — Kevin O'Leary Copy Share Image
James Taylor may be an all-American boy but he isn't Horatio Alger, and the lionizing of many rock stars by the rock… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
“Practice teaching others the 'unsearchable riches' of Christ in His person and work. Each week, explain a verse from a section of… — Henry Hon Copy Share Image
These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that's a scandal when we have so many riches and… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy;Is it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Friendship is a precious gift that can't be bought or sold. It's value is greater than mountains made of gold. If you… — Marlene Dietrich Copy Share Image
Philosophy, with the aid of experience, has at length banished the study of alchymy; and the present age, however desirous of riches,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The gospel is so simple that small children can understand it, and it is so profound that studies by the wisest theologians… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How happy we would be if we could find the treasure of which the Gospel speaks; all else would be as nothing.… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
In the free market, a man born into wealth or who has otherwise acquired great riches can lose his fortune depending on… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
How I measure riches is by the friends I have and the loved ones I have and the people I care about… — Ann Romney Copy Share Image
“Why had he wanted to be rich, or to feel rich? Was he an unhappy mouse before? Didn't he see the King… — William Steig Copy Share Image
“When selecting a one-night stand, a heterosexual woman who is materialistic is a trillion times more likely to choose a sexually unattractive… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
Surely among a rich man's flowering lawns, Amid the rustle of his planted hills, Life overflows without ambitious pains; And rains down… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Riches, in the hands of a man that is wise and generous, are good for something, but in the hands of a… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
“The riches of a country are to be valued by the quantity of labor its inhabitants are able to purchase, and not… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Riches are for the comfort of life, and not life for the accumulation of riches. I asked a holy wise man, "Who… — Saadi Copy Share Image
The human spirit is itself the most wonderful fairy tale that can possibly be. What a magnificent world lies enclosed within our… — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
Gypsy [Rose Lee] is as unique as she is timeless. Her story is classic Americana, and the strangest rags-to-riches saga you'll ever… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image