Riches Quotes - Page 10

Riches exclude only one inconvenience,--that is, poverty.

Why should the search for happiness be only or essentially material and mental? Aren't there untold riches too in the moral, the sentimental and the spiritual realms?

Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts. God designed your body's plumbing system. God designed an ostrich. If He didn't do it, He permitted a drunken angel to do it. Empirical facts can add significantly to the meaning of "being godlike".

The jests of the rich are ever successful.

And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.

Intelligent planning is essential for success in any undertaking designed to accumulate riches.

Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them; and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.

'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.

Nature seems to have poured forth her riches so without calculation, merely to mark the fullness of her joy.

The fame of the rich man dies with him; the fame of the treasure, and not of the man who possessed it, remains.

Wisdom ruleth in counsel -- so do riches.

The care of a large estate is an unpleasant thing.

The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

Every person who will learn the right way, and who will then continue diligently to follow that right way, is absolutely certain in time to possess great riches and all attending blessings.

Riches naturally beget pride, love of the world, and every temper that is destructive of Christianity.

Therefore, if at great things thou wouldst arrive, Get riches first, get wealth.

Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon'd round, And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown'd? No; the dead know it not, nor profit gain; It only serves to prove the living vain.

Riches attract attention, consideration, and congratulations of mankind.

Will you tell me how to prevent riches from producing luxury? Will you tell me how to prevent luxury from producing effeminacy, intoxication, extravagance, vice and folly?

When the San Francisco Democrats treat foreign affairs as an afterthought, as they did, they behaved less like a dove or a hawk than like an ostrich - convinced it could shut out the world by hiding its head in the sand.

As riches and honor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.

We see but the outside of a rich man's happiness; few consider him to be like the silkworm, that, when she seems to play, is at the very same time consuming herself.

Riches ennoble a man's circumstances, but not himself.

Riches either serve or govern the possessor.