Wealth - Quotes

The fortunate man is he who, born poor, or nobody, works gradually up to wealth and consideration, and, having got them, dies before he finds they were not worth so much trouble. - Charles Reade

The more wealth a man has, the louder his children talk. - Edgar Watson Howe

The most wanton torture is that of the rich trying to kill time. - Lewis F. Korns

The use we make of our fortune determines its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely, and too much if expended foolishly. - Christian Nestell Bovee

The wealthy seldom possess wealth: oftener they are possessed by it. - Ivan Panin

There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty! - Ann Radcliffe

Those that say they despise riches are saints or liars. - Austin O’Malley

Those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one. - Charles Caleb Colton

Titles, riches, and fine houses signify no more to the making of one man better than another, than the finer saddle to the making the better horse. - Wellins Calcott

True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse. - Og Mandino

Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it. Just as long as there is the enthusiasm of the chase they enjoy it; but when they begin to look around, and think of settling down, they find that that part by which joy enters is dead in them. They have spent their lives in heaping up colossal piles of treasure, which stand, at the end, like the pyramids in the desert sands, holding only the dust of kings. - Henry Ward Beecher

We may lack riches, but the greatest fortune is what lies in our hearts. - Dean Koontz

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. - Epictetus

Wealth hath never given happiness, but often hastened misery. - Martin Farquhar Tupper

Wealth is a relative thing, since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more. True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander. - Charles Caleb Colton

Wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery. - Frank Herbert

Wealth is both an enemy and a friend. - Nepalese Proverb

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. - Benjamin Franklin

Wealth is nothing more or less than a tool to do things with. It is like the fuel that runs the furnace or the belt that runs the wheel – only a means to an end. - Henry Ford

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent. - Plato

Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries. - Sophocles

Wealth which breeds idleness ... is only a sort of human oyster-bed, where heirs and heiresses are planted, to spend a contemptible life of slothfulness in growing plump and succulent for the grave-worm's banquet. - Horace Mann

Who is rich? He that enjoys his portion. - Benjamin Franklin

Worldly prosperity is like writing on water. - Unknown