39 Quotes Regarding Wealth


If capital and labor ever do get together it's good night for the rest of us.
Kin Hubbard

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.
Francis Bacon

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
Samuel Johnson

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.
Samuel Johnson

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
Samuel Johnson

As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.
Koran

All wealth is the product of labor.
John Locke

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
Henry Ward Beecher

The two most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque enclosed".
Dorothy Parker

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.
Albert Pike

It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary that money should love you.
Mayer Rothschild

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness and ugliness.
George Bernard Shaw

The seven deadly sins...Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes,respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.
George Bernard Shaw

Money can help you to get medicines but not health. Money can help you to get soft pillows, but not sound sleep. Money can help you to get material comforts, but not eternal bliss. Money can help you to get ornaments, but not beauty. Money will help you to get an electric earphone, but not natural hearing. Attain the supreme wealth, wisdom;you will have everything.
Sivananda

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Henry David Thoreau

In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?
Mark Twain

There is an old-time toast which is golden for its beauty. "When you ascend the hill of prosperity may you not meet a friend.
Mark Twain

Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.
Mark Twain

When is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire