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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

When you ask people what affects their wellbeing most, they think of health and wealth.

"Well-Being: What You Need to Thrive". Interview with Jennifer Robison, www.gallup.com. May 12, 2010.

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

He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.

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”

Being rich has never stopped anyone from being greedy.

Tami Hoag (2002). “Dark Horse”, p.29, Bantam