Quotes
Quotes about Wealth
When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.
Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.
As a mortal, thou must nourish each of two forebodings--that tomorrow's sunlight will be the last that thou shalt see; and that for fifty years wilt live out thy life in ample wealth.
The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.
Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; When health is lost, something is lost; When character is lost, all is lost!
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.
The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender- these form the wealth of home.
Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth. Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.
'Tis strange the miser should his cares employ To gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy; Is it less strange the prodigal should waste His wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?
Money was made, not to command our will, But all out lawful pleasure to fulfil. Shame and woe to use, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman run away.
The only wealth is life.
Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman away.
Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of nature. She shows us only surfaces, but she is a million fathoms deep.
And as great seamen, using all their wealth And skills in Neptune's deep invisible paths, In tall ships richly built and ribbed with brass, To put a girdle round about the world.
Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old nobility.
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquillity and occupation which give happiness.
It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity.
If you did wed my sister for her wealth, Then for her wealth's sake use her with more kindness: Or if you like elsewhere, do it by stealth; Muffle your false love with some show of blindness: Let not my sister read it in your eye; Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator; Look sweet, spear fair, become disloyalty; Apparel vice like virtue's harbinger; Bear a fair presence, though your heart be tainted; Teach sin the carriage of a holy saint; Be secret-false: what need she be acquainted?
The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited and the wealth and confusion man has created.
The seed ye sow, another reaps; The wealth ye find, another keeps; The robes ye weave, another wears; The arms ye forge, another bears.
