Adventure Quote by J.R.R. Tolkien

“They were rather handsome, had been educated in one of the first private seminaries in town, had a fortune of twenty thousand pounds, were…

— Jane Austen

“Who were these people with money, and what had they done that they should enjoy so much luxury, where others as good seemingly as…

— Theodore Dreiser

“I was an adventurer, but she was not an adventuress. She was a 'wanderess.' Thus, she didn’t care about money, only experiences - whether…

— Roman Payne

“The other two are rich and noble; examples of virtue rarely make their home among people like that.”

— Michel de Montaigne

“I then believed that a rich man should have some understanding of the place from which his riches came. That was very juvenile of…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“They did not speak, surprised to see how simple, almost poor, happiness could be, yes, materially poor and yet so abundant.”

— Andreï Makine

“She said that perhaps it was not so easy to be very rich; that if any one had so many things always, one might…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“It was clear that everything considered important and good was insignificant and repulsive, and that all this glamour and luxury hid the old well-known…

— Leo Tolstoy

“although they might never be rich or famous in America, they would have the satisfaction of knowing that what they had they had made…

— Carol Ryrie Brink

“They were a sign of patronage, a sign of having so much money that it had to be squandered on objects with no purpose…

— Jenny Zhang

“It occurred to me that rich people are just like regular people, but with more money.”

— Cleo White

“For the trouble with our rich and powerful people is not so much that they are wicked, but that they do not enjoy themselves.”

— Alan Wilson Watts