Riches Quotes - Page 9

Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.

Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.

Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life.

Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts.

What is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

Health, power, riches, possessions and honor can be snatched from you, but your will is irrevocably your own.

To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

Gentlemen, as sure as I'm sitting here now, the result of continuation of a non-system, the ostrich-like head-in-the-sand attitude, the constant rejection of any efforts to solve this problem, will produce an Armageddon in the American population in those states where there is a big problem.

My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches' but in fact, the Ross's were never raggedy.

If you did not do so for the sake of riches,You must have done so for the sake of novelty.

He who loses his money is forsaken by his friends, his wife, his servants and his relations; yet when he regains his riches those who have forsaken him come back to him. Hence wealth is certainly the best of relations.

How happy we would be if we could find the treasure of which the Gospel speaks; all else would be as nothing. As it is boundless, the more you search for it the greater the riches you will find; let us search unceasingly and let us not stop until we have found it.

Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare, But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

Money is human happiness in the abstract.

For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.

There's plenty of room for everyone in the world. Enough money, riches, and beauty for all to share. God has made enought for everyone, so let us all begin then by sharing it fairly.

Give me, Lord, neither poverty nor riches.

Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches.

Lack of desire is the greatest riches.

Riches are of no value in themselves; their use is discovered only in that which they procure.

Riches, perhaps, do not so often produce crimes as incite accusers.

One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.

Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit.