Riches Quotes - Page 11

Everything, virtue, glory, honor, things human and divine, all are slaves to riches.

Increasing wealth is attended by care and by the desire of greater increase.

For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches.

As the cream abandons the milk from which it took its life, and rises to the top and rides there, so men, because they are richer than those around about them, separate themselves, and all mankind below them they regard as skim milk.

As for time, all men have it in abundance.

Wouldst thou multiply thy riches? diminish them wisely; or wouldst thou make thy estate entire? divide it charitably. Seeds that are scattered increase; but, hoarded up, they perish.

Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

Fame and riches are fleeting. Stupidity is eternal

The real riches of yoga cannot be seen; they are felt and experienced from the inside out.

The rich fool is like a pig that is choked by its own fat.

O, my God! withhold from me the wealth to which tears and sighs and curses cleave. Better none at all than wealth like that.

An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.

The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.

All types of riches should be amassed by all means.

I will endanger your species like an ostrich, Hold you hostage, and crazy feed you swine sausage!

If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to the other world?

Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.

Ostrich is a very lean meat. Bison is a very lean meat. Chicken is a very lean meat. Notice something about my favorite meats?

Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy;Is it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?

I am Thy servant to do Thy will, and that will is sweeter to me than position or riches or fame, and I choose it above all things on Earth or in Heaven.

Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, 'Let no more riches enter!'.

The desire for riches is simply the capacity for a larger life seeking fulfillment; every desire is the effort of an unexpressed possibility come into action.

Riches should come as the reward for hard work, preferably by one's forebears

Riches are oftener an impediment than a stimulus to action; and in many cases they are quite as much a misfortune as a blessing.

The secret to riches is the same as the secret to comedy - timing.