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Riches Quotes by William Shakespeare
- Poor and content, is rich and rich enough; But riches, fineless, is as poor as winter, To him that ever fears he shall be poor.
- If thou art rich, thou art poor; for, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey, and…
- O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!
- Then know, that I have little wealth to lose. A man I am, crossed with adversity; My riches are these poor habiliments, Of which if…
- Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will…
- ...and then, in dreaming, / The clouds methought would open and show riches / Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked / I…
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- Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress. — Francis Bacon
- Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but… — Gamaliel Bailey
- Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men? — Natalie Clifford Barney
- A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented… — Akhenaton
- As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before. — Jean de la Bruyere
- Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits. — Edmund Burke
- A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles. — Richard Burton
- Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as… — Robert Burton
- A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches… — Thomas Carlyle