Wealth Quotes - Page 35
Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.
Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.342
Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.61, Wordsworth Editions
Time is lord of thee: Thy wealth, thy glory, and thy name are his.
Thomas Love Peacock (1931). “The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Poems and plays. 1931”
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary, Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
"I'd be a Butterfly". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.
It is more blessed to give than to receive, and therefore less blessed to receive than to give.
Thomas Chalmers (1848). “Select Works of Thomas Chalmers ...: Comprising His Miscellanies; Lectures on Romans; Astronomical, Commercial and Congregational Discourses”, p.153
1829 Signs of the Times.
Sir Thomas Browne (1872). “Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers”, p.151
I am simply unable to understand the value placed by so many people upon great wealth.
Theodore Roosevelt (1952). “Letters of Theodore Roosevelt: The big stick, 1905-1909”
Theodor Adorno, Richard Leppert, Susan H. Gillespie (2002). “Essays on Music”, p.148, Univ of California Press
Tami Hoag (2002). “Dark Horse”, p.29, Bantam