Riches Quotes - Page 8

Riches are for spending.

The heart contracts as the pocket expands.

No one is kept in poverty by a shortness in the supply of riches, there is more than enough for all.

I break all the rules and wear everything. Ruffles, ostrich feathers, fox coats. You look fat in fox anyway, so if you start fat, you only look a little fatter.

The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.

I want the other riches in life; I want to get married.

Better to have fewer wants than greater riches to supply increasing wants.

If thou covetest riches, ask not but for contentment, which is an immense treasure.

The way to transform your immense inner value into outer riches is by giving it freely and authentically to others.

Riches for the most part are hurtful to them that possess them.

Riches, rightly used, breed delight.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

The rule in our society is that while those who kill once make wretched a single person are severely punished, those (heads of state, inventors, manufacturers) who are responsible for the death, mutilation or general wretchedness of thousands or millions are rewarded with fame, riches and prizes... If you are going to rob, rob big; if you're going to kill, kill big.

Come with me into the world and reclaim your independence. You stand to gain so much, and riches are the least of it.

And fame, for a painter means sales, gains, fortune, riches. And today, as you know, I am celebrated. I am rich.

There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.

When I think of God's Kingdom, I am compelled to be silent because of its immensity, because God's Kingdom is none other than God himself with all His riches.

No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise.

There can be no rule of God in the present state of iniquitous inequalities in which a few roll in riches and the masses do not get enough to eat.

Wherefore a good name is better than riches.

There is one way whereby we may secure our riches, and make sure friends to ourselves of them,--by laying them out in charity.

The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them; and starves himself in the midst of plenty, and most unnaturally cheats and robs himself of that which is his own; and makes a hard shift, to be as poor and miserable with a great estate, as any man can be without it.

Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.

As a man falls out of favour and his wealth declines, we discover for the first time the ridiculous aspects of his character, which were always there but which wealth and favour had concealed.

It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them.