Dry Quote by Robert Herrick

“You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help little men by tearing…

— Anonymous

Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them…

— Jean Cocteau

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the weak by…

— William J. H. Boetcker

“In protecting their wealth men are tight-fisted, but when it comes to the matter of time, in the case of the one thing in…

— Seneca

“The rich would have spoken on the value of thrift and the idle grown eloquent over the dignity of labour.”

— Oscar Wilde

“In a world of limited resources, our wealth is at the expense of the poor. To put it simply, if we have it, others…

— Richard J. Foster

The doctrine of thrift for the poor is dumb and cruel, like advising them to try and lift themselves by their bootstraps.

— Norman Thomas

“The road to wealth is sown with false starts and failures that should in no way discourage the poor who make good or our…

— Roberto Bolaño

“Those who are coming from the gutters know that from time to time a piece of us will break off and float back to…

— Crystal Evans

“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

“To part with money is a sacrifice beyond almost all men endowed with a sense of order. There is scarcely any man alive who…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance... But the thing is true; economy, properly understood, is the more poetic.…

— G.K. Chesterton