| Author |
Quotes |
| Homer | These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd! |
| Homer | Know from the bounteous heavens all riches flow, And what man gives, the gods by man bestow. |
| Henry David Thoreau | Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul. |
| Henry David Thoreau | A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. |
| Henry David Thoreau | Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. |
| James Russell Lowell | The rich man's sons inherits cares, The bank may break, the factory burn, A breath may burst his bubble shares, And soft, white hands could hardly earn A living that would serve his turn. |
| John Milton | Let none admire That riches grow in hell, that soil may best Deserve the precious bane. |
| Jonathan Swift | If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel. |
| John Gay
| Who hath not heard the rich complain Of surfeits, and corporeal pain? He barr'd from every use of wealth, Envies the ploughman's strength and health. |
| Marcus Valerius Martialhtm | You often ask me, Priscus, what sort of person I should be, if I were to become suddenly rich and powerful. Who can determine what would be his future conduct? Tell me, if you were to become a lion, what sort of a lion would you be? |
| Ovidius Naso | The ungovernable passion for wealth. |
| Ovidius Naso | Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth. |
| Ovidius Naso | Embarrassment of riches. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Give no bounties, make equal laws, secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Wealth is in applications of mind to nature, and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Without a rich heart wealth is an ugly beggar. |
| Samuel Johnson | We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice. |
| Publilius Syrus | No good man ever became suddenly rich. |
| Thomas Carlyle | Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go. |
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