| Author |
Quotes |
| Sir Richard Steele | The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it. |
| Spanish Proverb | A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel. |
| Titus Livy | It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous. |
| Wall Street Journal | Whether you wind up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends on the kind of chick you married |
| Walter Harte | Dame Nature gave him comeliness and health, And Fortune gave him wealth. |
| Will Carleton | But I have learned a thing or two, I know as sure as fate, When we lock up our lives for wealth, the gold key comes too late. |
| William Blake | I have mental joys and mental health, Mental friends and mental wealth, I've a wife that I love and that loves me, I've all but riches bodily. |
| William Blake | Since all the riches of this world May be gifts from the devil and earthly kings, I should suspect that I worshipped the devil If I thanked my God for worldly things. |
| Wilson Mizner | There's nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger. |
| Winston Churchill | We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. |
| Charles Caleb Colton | The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing. |
| Edward Young | Can wealth give happiness? look round and see What gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, The mind annihilates, and calls for more. |
| Edward Young | Much learning shows how little mortals know, Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy. |
| Edmund Burke | If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. |
| Francis Bacon | Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress. |
| George Herbert | For wealth, without contentment, climbs a hill, To feel those tempests which fly over ditches. |
| Horatius Flaccus | Riches either serve or govern the possessor. |
| Horatius Flaccus | For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches. |
| Horatius Flaccus | Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed. |
| Homer | Base wealth preferring to eternal praise. |
| Previous - 1 - 2 - Page 3 - 4 - 5 - Next |