Wealth Quote by Samuel Johnson

“Praises of the unworthy are felt by ardent minds as robberies of the deserving.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“I've always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I've got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I've got hold…

— Peter Cook

“Bastions of wealth are no deference for the man who treads the grand altar of Justice down and out of sight.”

— Aeschylus

“A sincere person owes it to themselves to expose the frightful barbarity which still prevails in the hidden depths of a society so outwardly…

— Élisée Reclus

“The horsemen thatching the roof with feathers are a likeness of people who go forth into the world to seek riches and fortune. When…

— Mary McGarry

“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

Wisdom adorneth riches and casteth a shadow over poverty.

— Socrates

“When greed is enthroned, be it in a community or nation, ungodliness is celebrated at the altar of human pleasure.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“For fortune delights to strike down those who are too high and to raise those who are low; and if we do not anticipate…

— Jean Plaidy

“At nightfall I return home and enter my study. There on the threshold I remove my dirty, mud-spattered clothes, slip on my regal and…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.”

— Plato

“It is the luxurious and dissipated who set the fashions which the herd so diligently follow.”

— Henry David Thoreau