Delight Quote by Dick Gregory Download Open image “Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.” — Dick Gregory ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Delight Loss Money Possession Riches Us
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Riches are oftener an impediment than a stimulus to action; and in many cases they are quite as much a misfortune as a blessing. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Riches are a blessing only to those who make them a blessing to others. — Marianette Carbito Copy Share Image
Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Riches get their value from the mind of the possessor; they are blessings to those who know how to use them, and curses to… — Terence Copy Share Image
Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. The cares of riches lie heavier upon a good man than the… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
...when we abandon visible riches... it is strange goods and not our own that we are leaving. And this is so even if we… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
Riches are always over estimated; the enjoyment they give is more in the pursuit than the possession. — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
Riches are a blessing or a curse to a man according as he has or has not a heart to make good use of… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that's never been explained. — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
What price would God demand from the churches for having the audacity to lighten the color of his son's skin, and straighten out his… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
In the South they don't mind how close I get, so long as I don't get too big. In the North they don't mind… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
Eating liver out of a cow's body is like eating the filter out of a car. — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that. — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
“Dear Momma―Wherever you are, if ever you hear the word "nigger" again, remember they are advertising my book.” — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
The NAACP is a wonderful organization . . . But do you realize if tomorrow morning we had complete integration, all them cats would be outta work? — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
I used to get letters saying, 'I didn't know black children and white children were the same.' — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
People keep telling me about the white race and the black race - and it really doesn't make sense. I played Miami, met a… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, "Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die." -… — John Green Copy Share Image
Shhh.” He put a finger to her lips. “Hear me out. I cannot deny that I would've liked to have made babies with you.… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things,… — James Nayler Copy Share Image
There was an Old Man of Messina, Whose daughter was named Opsibeena; She wore a small wig, and rode out on a pig, To… — Edward Lear Copy Share Image
A real flame of love is a subtle thing. It burns as a will-o'-the-wisp, dancing onward to fairy lands of delight. It roars as… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries. — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
It might be lonelier Without the Loneliness - I’m so accustomed to my Fate - Perhaps the Other - Peace - Would interrupt the… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open… — Aaron Betsky Copy Share Image
My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it does in… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
