Riches Quotes - Page 27

• Those that say they despise riches are saints or liars.

  Austin O'Malley

  Liars, Saint, Wealth

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• Riches do not make one rich but busy.

  Fernando de Rojas

  Busy, Rich

  "La Celestina". Play by Fernando de Rojas, 1499.

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• The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

  Josiah Strong

  Cities, Poverty, Poor

  Josiah Strong (1885). “Our country: its possible future and its present crisis”

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• Through our science we have created magnificent spacecrafts and telescopes to explore the night and the light and the half light. We have made visible things that are invisible to the unaided eye. We have brought the dreamy heavens down to Earth, held them in the mind's eye. Our explorations have produced a vast archive of remarkable astronomical images... The riches are too many for choices, the revelations beautiful and dreadful. Who can look at these images and not be transformed? The heavens declare God's glory.

  Chet Raymo

  Beautiful, Eye, Night

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• A gentleman of ambition is aware of the people he wishes to be associated with both socially and commercially. He knows that moving through different levels of society is akin to stepping through different rooms in an enormous house, each door leading to a grander environment than the last. He may, of course, settle for the comfort of any room he reaches. Alternatively, he may continue through successive doors to surround himself with even greater fineries and riches.

  Chris Murray

  Moving, Ambition, Doors

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• As the cream abandons the milk from which it took its life, and rises to the top and rides there, so men, because they are richer than those around about them, separate themselves, and all mankind below them they regard as skim milk.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Milk, Wealth

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.381

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• Riches may not bring happiness, but neither does poverty.

  Sophie Irene Loeb

  Doe, May, Poverty

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• It is rare to see a rich man religious; for religion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to unlicensed freedom.

  Owen Feltham

  Religious, Men, Religion

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• There is no substitute for the riches gained on a lifetime basis by the young American who studies or works abroad.

  Letitia Baldrige

  Study, Lifetime, Substitutes

  Letitia Baldrige (1968). “Of Diamonds and Diplomats”, New York : Ballantine Books

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• No riches from his scanty store / My lover could impart; / He gave a boon I valued more - / He gave me all his heart!

  Helen Maria Williams

  Heart, Lovers, Stores

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• I demand riches in definite terms; I have a definite plan for acquiring riches;I am engaged in carrying out my plan, and I am giving an equivalent,in useful service, of the value of those riches I demand.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Giving, Demand, Term

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• What are riches - grandeur - health itself, to the luxury of a pure conscience, the health of the soul; - and what the sufferings of poverty, disappointment, despair - to the anguish of an afflicted one!

  Ann Radcliffe

  Disappointment, Integrity, Luxury

  Ann Radcliffe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe (Illustrated)”, p.1145, Delphi Classics

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• The riches of heaven, the honor which cometh from God only, and the pleasures at His right hand, the absence of all evil, the presence and enjoyment of all good, and this good enduring to eternity, never more to be taken from us, never more to be in any, the least degree, diminished, but forever increasing, these are the wreaths which form the contexture of that crown held forth to our hopes.

  Thomas Hartwell Horne

  Hope, Taken, Hands

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• O blessed poverty, who bestows eternal riches on those who love and embrace her!

  Clare of Assisi

  Blessed, Poverty, Embrace

  Saint Clare (of Assisi), Regis J. Armstrong (2006). “The Lady: Clare of Assisi : Early Documents”, p.22, New City Press

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• Though the worship of riches is an old religion, there has never been a danger that it might become the sole religion. And yet that is what is surely going to happen in the world.

  J. E. Buckrose

  World, Might, Worship

  Annie Edith Foster Jameson, J. E. Buckrose (1923). “What I Have Gathered”

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• Man is in pursuit of two goals: he is looking for happinesse and, being by essence empty ("étant vide par essence", Fr.), he is trying to fill (or take up, - "remplir", Fr.) his life; the latter reason play a more considerable role than we ordinarily think. What we take for vainglory, ambition, love of power and riches (or wealth), is often, indeed, a need to mask this emptiness, a need to let one's hair down (or to live it up), to put oneself on a false scent or trail. (de se donner le change", Fr.)

  African Spir

  Ambition, Men, Thinking

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 56), 1937.

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• there was nothing in the whole world so dreadful as the power of riches wrongly used.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  World, Wealth, Used

  Gene Stratton-Porter (2009). “The White Flag”, p.460, Wildside Press LLC

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• We have such an embarrassment of riches when it comes to choice. Do you want to hike in the Alps? There are 300 pairs of shoes you can order within the next 10 minutes. You have your choice of everything.

  Nick Offerman

  Order, Shoes, Choices

  "Ron Swanson of Parks & Rec vs. Nick Offerman: The Food Interview". Squid Ink interview, www.laweekly.com. November 22, 2011.

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• Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue.

  Horace

  Firsts, Wealth, Virtue

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• Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless, avarice is never satisfied.

  Horace

  Wicked, Increase, Satisfied

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• Every individual nature has its own beauty. One is struck in every company, at every fireside, with the riches of nature, when he hears so many new tones, all musical, sees in each person original manners, which have a proper and peculiar charm, and reads new expressions of face. He perceives that nature has laid for each the foundations of a divine building, if the soul will build thereon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Expression, Soul, Individuality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2447, Delphi Classics

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• Eyes are bold as lions,--roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages. They wait for no introduction; they are no Englishmen; ask no leave of age or rank; they respect neither property nor riches, neither learning nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude, and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time. What inundation of life and thought is discharged from one soul into another through them!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Sex, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2329, Delphi Classics

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• Men pursue riches under the idea that their possession will set them at ease, and above the world. But the law of association often makes those who begin by loving gold as a servant finish by becoming themselves its slaves; and independence without wealth is at least as common as wealth without independence.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Law, Ideas

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.171

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• Marriage is the strictest tie of perpetual friendship, and there can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity; and he must expect to be wretched, who pays to beauty, riches, or politeness that regard which only virtue and piety can claim.

  Samuel Johnson

  Marriage, Integrity, Ties

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1836). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: with an essay on his life and genius”, p.41

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• Anarchists are extreme libertarian socialists , "libertarian" meaning the demand for freedom from prohibition, and "socialist" meaning the demand for social equality . ...Complete freedom implies equality, since if there are rich and poor, the poor cannot be permitted to take liberties with riches. Complete equality implies freedom, since those who suffer restrictions cannot be the equals of those who impose them.

  Donald Rooum

  Suffering, Liberty, Demand

  Donald Rooum (2016). “What is Anarchism?: An Introduction”, p.25, PM Press

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