| Author |
Quotes |
| Alain Rene Le Sage | I wish you every kind of prosperity, with a little more taste. |
| Bible | The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. |
| Bible | But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it. |
| Bible | Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour. |
| Calvin Coolidge | Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. |
| Edward Young | Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines. |
| John Webster | Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear; As seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near. |
| Lucan | The prosperous man is never sure that he is loved for himself. |
| Publilius Syrus | Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance. |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation. |
| Francis Bacon | Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. |
| George Herbert | Prosperity lets goe the bridle. |
| John Milton | Surer to prosper than prosperity could have assur'd us. |
| Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | Everything in the world may be endured, except only a succession of prosperous days. |
| Mark Twain | Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know. |
| William Shakespeare | There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny, the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops, and I will make it felony to drink small beer. |
| William Shakespeare | Besides, you know Prosperity's the very bond of love, Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together Affliction alters. |
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