Famous Quotes about Riches (71 Quotations)

I don't mind their having a lot of money, and I don't care how they employ it, but I do think that they damn well ought to admit they enjoy it.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.

If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with to the other world?

In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.

It is better to live rich, than to die rich.

It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money. It is clear, they have not value for what they spend.

Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different.

Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by other men.

No one has ever said it, but how painfully true it is that the poor have us always with them.

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.

O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!

Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.

Of all the riches that we hug, of all the pleasures we enjoy, we can carry no more out of this world than out of a dream.

Of rich men it telleth, and strange is the story how they have, and they hanker, and grip far and wide; And they live and they die, and the earth and its glory has been but a burden they scarce might abide.

One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.