Begging Quote by Elizabeth Gilbert

“Sometimes in life, as in literature, people get their just desserts. The greedy man loses everything because he cannot resist seeking more riches.”

— Elise Blackwell

“For the wise man does not consider himself unworthy of any gifts from Fortune’s hands: he does not love wealth but he would rather…

— Seneca

“I will set aside the point that I see no special heroism in accumulating money, particularly if, in addition, the person is foolish enough…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Pile up gold, heap up silver, build covered walks, fill your house with slaves and the town with debtors, unless you lay to rest…

— Plutarch

“I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at…

— Anonymous

“Life is the ultimate treasure we seek to cherish; life becomes empty when we wearily seek wealth; under the presumption that it is the…

— Wayne Chirisa

“If my heart is set on pursuing real treasures, my mind must be fixed solely on the privilege of enjoying them and freed of…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“He had squandered the two most precious treasures ever known: the gift of life and the gift of love.”

— Jackson Radcliffe

“Is it not the disparity of wealth that consumes the willing soul. Rather, the golden keys of opportunity clamor softly with fraught anxiety of…

— Joel T. McGrath

“The true luxury and the real potlatch of our times falls to the poverty-stricken, that is, to the individual who lies down and scoffs.…

— Georges Bataille

“I asked, it is true, for greater treasures than a little food or rest: I required kindness and sympathy; but I did not believe…

— Mary Shelley

“To get rich, one must have but a single idea, one fixed, hard, immutable thought: the desire to make a heap of gold. And…

— Petrus Borel