Riches Quotes - Page 5

Wealth that comes quickly, goeth the same way.

I found the road to wealth when I decided that a part of all I earned was mine to keep.

I have lived among enough painters and around studios to have had all the theories - and how contradictory they are - rammed down my throat. A man has to have a gizzard like an ostrich to digest all the brass-tacks and wire nails of modern art theories.

Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will bring you happiness again, as long as you live.

The ball gave me prestige, gave me fame, gave me riches. Thank you, my old friend.

You can have all the riches and success in the world, but if you dont have your health, you have nothing.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

Let the Lord your God be your hope – seek for nothing else from him, but let him himself be your hope. There are people who hope from him riches or perishable and transitory honours, in short they hope to get from God things which are not God himself.

You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving - and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it - and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return.

When Anaxagoras was told of the death of his son, he only said, "I knew he was mortal." So we in all casualties of life should say "I knew my riches were uncertain, that my friend was but a man." Such considerations would soon pacify us, because all our troubles proceed from their being unexpected.

If you fall into poverty, live that way without grumbling - then your poverty will not burden you. Likewise, if you are rich, live with your riches. All this is the functioning of Buddha-nature. In short, Buddha-nature has the quality of infinite adaptability.

Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Rich isn't an amount of money, it's a mindset about how you live. If you believe you can win, you can.

When riches begin to come they come so quickly, in such great abundance, that one wonders where they have been hiding during all those lean years.

Wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion.

Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.

What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches?

Being rich and thin isn't everything.

Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none

Madness is the WHO staring into the abyss and denying it is there. Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes around her. - Lanky Man with green eyes

Now take a human body. Why wouldn't you like to see a human body with a curling tail with a crest of ostrich feathers at the end? And with ears shaped like acanthus leaves? It would be ornamental, you know, instead of the stark, bare ugliness we have now. Well, why don't you like the idea? Because it would be useless and pointless. Because the beauty of the human body is that is hasn't a single muscle which doesn't serve its purpose; that there's not a line wasted; that every detail of it fits one idea, the idea of a man and the life of a man.

Bathe in your riches and friends, I'll stay here with my songbooks and pens

Riches is nothing in the face of the Lord, for He can see into the heart.

How many threadbare souls are to be found under silken cloaks and gowns!