Wealth Quotes
3042 Wealth quotes by 1723 unique authors
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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…
— William Blake
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There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, and wasteth in the winde;…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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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…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth.
— Ovid
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Virtue, the strength and beauty of the soul, Is the best gift of Heaven: a happiness That even above the smiles and frowns of fate…
— John Armstrong
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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…
— John Armstrong
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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
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Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
— Juvenal
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He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately.
— Juvenal
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Thieves at home must hang; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purse The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes.
— William Cowper
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I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for…
— William Cowper
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Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump…
— Ben Jonson
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What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little?
— Alexander Pope
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If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me; Riches are mine,…
— John Milton
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For Solomon, he lived at ease, and full Of honour, wealth, high fare, aimed not beyond Higher design than to enjoy his state.
— John Milton
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In my youth, poverty enriched me, but now I can afford wealth.
— Marc Chagall
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Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool.
— Og Mandino
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Those wishing to be successful in the market can't ignore the boomer numbers, the wealth and spending power they have.
— Pat Conroy
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The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends…
— Edmund Burke
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Base wealth preferring to eternal praise.
— Homer
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This is about Americans getting off the sidelines and getting onto the playing field, .. This is about each and every one of us who…
— Colin Powell
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I desire ... to leave this one great fact clearly stated. THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE.
— John Ruskin
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Infinite riches in a little room.
— Christopher Marlowe
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False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with…
— Hesiod
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Truth! why shall every wretch of letters Dare to speak truth against his betters! Let ragged virtue stand aloof, Nor mutter accents of reproof; Let…
— Charles Churchill
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