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Riches Quotes

O blessed poverty, who bestows eternal riches on those who love and embrace her!

Saint Clare (of Assisi), Regis J. Armstrong (2006). “The Lady: Clare of Assisi : Early Documents”, p.22, New City Press

In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.

Herakleitos, Diogenes (2011). “Herakleitos and Diogenes: Translated from the Greek by Guy Davenport”, p.48, Wipf and Stock Publishers

As riches increase and accumulate in few hands . . . the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard.

Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton (1932). “Jeffersonian principles and Hamiltonian principles: extracts from the writings of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton”

A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.

Thomas Robert Malthus (1959). “Population: The First Essay”, p.4, University of Michigan Press

America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.

Speech at Des Moines, 1 Feb. 1916, in New York Times 2 Feb. 1916, p. 1

Riches, when they come in huge quantities, are never the result of HARD work!

Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.86, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.

Samuel Beckett (2012). “Murphy”, p.115, Faber & Faber

If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance.

Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.30, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA