Riches Quotes


Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none. - David Brainerd



With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches. - Adam Smith



Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven. - Bible



Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength. - Bible



Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so reluctant to change? It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism is the desire to preserve the truths and standards of the past; its dangers, of which we are seldom aware, is that in preserving those values, we may miss the infinitely greater riches that lie in the future. - Dale E Turner



Why is it in the richest country in the world ... people have all these empties? It's not just inner-city kids. Almost all kids today have aspects of these things. - Luis Rodriguez



Who would not wish to be from wealth exempt,
Since riches point to misery and contempt?
- William Shakespeare



Who steals my purse, steals trash, but he that filches from me my good name robs me of that which not enriches him and makes me poor indeed. - William Shakespeare



While the United States remains a spectacularly rich country by any standard, we are drifting toward a Third-World-like distribution of our riches. For tens of millions of Americans, the alternative to unemployment has become a dead-end job that doesn't necessarily pay enough to cover basic living expenses. - James Lardner



While the U.S. may have the richest economy, we represent only 4.5 percent of the world population. That [leaves] a lot of people who need products and services. - Chris Griffin



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