Wealth Quotes
If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.
The most brilliant fortunes are often not worth the littleness required to gain them.
The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living form.
America is old tobacco: gold and green. It's lush and literally feels like wealth, like optimism, turn of the century America where everything was blooming.
Research is always a very necessary part of my process because all of my books to this point have been historical. Time spent in the library adds to one's wealth as a writer or artist.
Let him avoid ,the acquisition of wealth and ,the gratification of his desires, if they are opposed to the sacred law, and even lawful acts which may cause pain in the future or are offensive to men.
A rich woman seems to have all her banknotes about her, guarding her virtue, like a cuirass, in the lining of her corset.
As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
Wealth per se I never too much valued, and my acquaintance with its possessors has by no means increased my veneration for it.
The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.
Be not anxious to avoid poverty. In this way the wealth of the universe may be securely invested.
The dream of capitalism is to co-opt people with higher living standards without redistributing any wealth. Without co-optation, widespread repression is the only guarantor of gross inequality.
It is a common fate -- a woman's lot -- To waste on one the riches of her soul, Who takes the wealth she gives him, but cannot Repay the interest, and much less the whole.
... without health to enjoy love, and love to enjoy wealth, is not all vanity?
In a city where most of the wealth is controlled by a small few, certain things are overlooked, particularly when it comes to the assertion of privilege.
Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man, Inhibition, which does men great harm and great good. Inhibition attaches to poverty, boldness to wealth.
Real wealth consists in things of utility and beauty, in things that help to create strong, beautiful bodies and surroundings inspiring to live in.
We aren't protecting the people who most need it when those who can contribute to the country's success emigrate. Contrary to what some claim, I am not getting rid of the wealth tax to help the rich.
Wealth in activity--capital with all its friction--is far safer than invested wealth lying dead.
Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts.
What is Friendship? Something deep That the heart can spend and keep: Wealth that greatens while we give, Praise that heartens us to live.
Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that prevails on the subject of labor.
Great wants proceed from great wealth; but they are undutiful children, for they sink wealth down to poverty.
Economic progress and justice do not consist in superbly equalized destitution, but in the constant creation of more and more goods and services, of more and more wealth and income to be shared.
For the scientific acquisition of knowledge is almost as tedious as the routine acquisition of wealth.
Even in our democratic New England towns the accidental possession of wealth, and its manifestation in dress and equipage alone, obtain for the possessor almost universal respect.
Records, radio, television, movies, magazines-all are monopolized by the money managers who are guided by one ethic, the words wealth and power.
Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should?
It requires more than a day's devotion to know and to possess the wealth of a day.
When the anger of the gods is incurred, wealth or power only bring more devastating punishment.
For no mortal ever attains to blessedness. One may be luckier than another when wealth flows his way, but blessed never.
Each humblest plant, or weed, as we call it, stands there to express some thought or mood of ours; and yet how long it stands in vain!... Beauty and true wealth are always thus cheap and despised.
Color, which is the poet's wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.
The distribution of wealth is not determined by nature. It is determined by policy.
The crime should be punished no matter whether poverty or wealth caused it to occur, because the crime is wrong.
