Kindred Quote by Francis Bacon

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I think that indicates why men tend to invest more wealth. If he loses some, there's more coming in. Whereas for women, it's like…

— Sallie Krawcheck

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.

— John Stuart Mill

Wealth accumulates, and men decay.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Wealth and rank are what men desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed. Poverty and obscurity…

— Confucius

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

— Herodotus

Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold, So that men ever seek for more, that they may have the most.

— Ovid

Riches are valuable at all times, and to all men, because they always purchase pleasures such as men are accustomed to and desire; nor…

— David Hume

Men are not rich or poor according to what they possess but to what they desire. The only rich man is he that with…

— Roger Chamberlain

There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man--the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the…

— Henry Fielding