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Friday, 5 September 2008
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"Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better." (Burney, Charles - Unity)

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Browse Quotations about Wealth

'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.
A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune.
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if her were rich.
A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.
A penny is a lot of money, if you have not got a penny.
A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.
A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.
A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.
A wise man's day is worth a fool's life.
Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.
After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer.
Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more.
As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.
As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal. [Matthew 6:20]
But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.
Controlled time is our true wealth.
Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job?
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.
For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one's destruction or their use. A standard both to buy and sell, all things from heaven down to hell.
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.
He does not posses wealth that allows it to possess him.
He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.
He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.
He that is rich is wise.
How much money is enough?
I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.
I've been more bossed by my fortune than it has been bossed by me.
If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be.
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.
It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.
It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.
It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again.
Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.
No just person ever became quickly rich.
No one should be rich except those who understand it.
Of the wealth of the world each has as much as they take.
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
Plenty makes dainty!
Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.
Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.
Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.
Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health.
Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.
The day is not far distant when the man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was free for him to administer during life, will pass away unwept, unhonored, and unsung, no matter to what uses he leave the dross which he cannot take with him. Of such as these the public verdict will then be: The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced. Such, in my opinion, is the true gospel concerning wealth, obedience to which is destined some day to solve the problem of the rich and the poor.
The first wealth is health.
The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.
The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.
The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.
The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
The only thing I like about rich people is their money.
The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.
The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.
The reason why we see that people of the greatest capacity are not rich, is either they despise wealth in comparison to something else, or, they are not content in getting an estate, unless they may do it in their own way, while at the same time enjoying all the pleasures and gratitude's of life.
The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one's own rules.
The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.