Riches Quotes - Page 34

• I know not whether there exists such a thing as a coin stamped with a pair of pinions; but I wish this were the device which monarchs put upon their dollars and ducats, to show that riches make to themselves wings, and fly away.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Wings, Gold, Wish

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• The man whose bosom neither riches nor luxury nor grandeur can render happy may, with a book in his hand, forget all his torments under the friendly shade of every tree; and experience pleasures as infinite as they are varied, as pure as they are lasting, as lively as they are unfading, and as compatible with every public duty as they are contributory to private happiness.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Reading, Book, Men

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• A nation's wealth is too serious a matter to be left to the wealthy. The riches of a nation belong to all, to be shared among all for the general welfare.

  Robert Payne

  Serious, Matter, Wealth

  Robert Payne (1975). “The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America”, Praeger Publishers

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• The Emperor himself amassed his great riches. The older he grew, the greater became his greed, his pitiable cupidity... he and his people took millions from the state treasurer and left cemeteries full of people who had died of hunger, cemeteries visible from the windows of the royal palace

  Haile Selassie

  People, Greed, Royal Palaces

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• The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls.

  Francois Fenelon

  Passion, Order, Support

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• To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

  Akhenaton

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Inspirational, Wise, Men

  "My Country 'tis of Thee". Adam International Review, No. 299, 1962.

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• Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

  Edmund Burke

  Limits, Frugality, Economy And Economics

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• Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.

  Robert Burton

  Real, Moon, Mind

  Robert Burton (1824). “The Anatomy of Melancholy,: In which the Kinds, Causes, Consequences, and Cures of this English Malady, ... are -- "traced from Within Its Inmost Centre to Its Outmost Skin."”, p.178

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• If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.

  Khalil Gibran

  Men, Association, Yardsticks

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• The world has plenty of room, riches, money and beauty ... Let us begin by dividing it more fairly.

  Anne Frank

  World, Rooms, Dividing

  Anne Frank (2010). “Tales from the Secret Annexe”, Peter Halban

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• Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Nature, Religion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• The desire for riches is simply the capacity for a larger life seeking fulfillment; every desire is the effort of an unexpressed possibility come into action.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Effort, Desire, Action

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “The Science of Wallace D. Wattles: The Science of Being Well, The Science of Getting Rich & The Science of Being Great – Complete Trilogy: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of How to Promote Yourself, New Science of Living and Healing, Hellfire Harrison, A New Christ, How to Get What You Want and Jesus The Man and His Work”, p.23, e-artnow

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• The rich are never as possessed by their riches as the poor are by their poverty.

  Mason Cooley

  Poverty, Poor, Possessed

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• In truth, it requires not only a large intellect, but a large heart, to judge with becoming charity of the peculiar temptations of riches.

  Shirley Bassey

  Heart, Judging, Temptation

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• The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by despising the good she denied them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Desire, Done, Merit

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• Conscious virtue is the only solid foundation of all happiness; for riches, power, rank, or whatever, in the common acceptation ofthe word, is supposed to constitute happiness, will never quiet, much less cure, the inward pangs of guilt.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Happiness, Guilt, Foundation

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.313

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• Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Able, Flaws, Abundance

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1858). “Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.358

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• Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Littles, Liable, Calamity

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Quixote de la Mancha (don, fict.name.) (1847). “The history of don Quixote de la Mancha. From the Span. To which is prefixed a sketch of the life and writings of the author. Select libr. ed”, p.73

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• When we see the shameful fortunes amassed in all quarters of the globe, are we not impelled to exclaim that Judas' thirty pieces of silver have fructified across the centuries?

  Sophie Swetchine

  Pieces, Silver, Century

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• With all thy getting, get understanding, is the banner under which these Forbes editorials have appeared since the first issue of the publication. We have no illusions about what great wealth can do and what it cannot do. We believe in the worthwhileness of striving by all worthy means to attain success and to attain wealth. Simply because we are convinced that no amount of money is worth the sacrifice of one's better instincts, of one's self-respect-of one's soul, if you wish-simply because we are convinced that riches not gained legitimately and decently are not worth having.

  B. C. Forbes

  Believe, Mean, Sacrifice

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• In country, as in people, a plain exterior often conceals
  hidden riches, to perceive which requires much living in and with.

  Aldo Leopold

  Country, People, Perceive

  Aldo Leopold (1972). “Round River”, p.30, Oxford University Press

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• It is more pitiable once to have been rich than not to be rich now.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Rich, Has Beens

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• That is true plenty, not to have, but not to want riches.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Contentment, Want, Plenty

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• Providence has decreed that those common acquisitions, money, gems, plate, noble mansions, and dominion, should be sometimes bestowed on the indolent and unworthy; but those things which constitute our true riches, and which are properly our own, must be procured by our own labor.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Acquisition, Noble, Dominion

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