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Quotes : Wealth.


1.      By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich. -Democritus

2.      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. -Andrew Young.

3.      Controlled time is our true wealth. -Buckminster Fuller.

4.      Wealth is what gives you the right to preach about the virtues of poverty. –Unknown.

5.      Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money. -John Wicker.

6.      Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. -Oscar Wilde.

7.      A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune.
-Anonymous.

8.      A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. -Henry David Thoreau.

9.      A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.
-Mohammed.

10. A penny is a lot of money, if you have not got a penny.
-Yiddish Proverb.

11. A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.
-Spanish Proverb.

 

  1. That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.  -Henry David Thoreau.

 

  1. The only thing I like about rich people is their money.  -Astor, Lady Nancy.

 

  1. Life begets life. Energy becomes energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.  -Sarah Bernhardt.

 

  1. The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?  -Henry David Thoreau.

 

  1.  Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.                 -Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)

 

  1. If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.  -Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)

 

  1. An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.  -Bonnie Friedman.

 

19. Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more. -Ovid

20. As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor. -Jean Jacques Rousseau.

21. As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich. -Proverb.

22. The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.  -Bacon, Sir Francis .

23. If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.  -Lane Kirkland.

24. Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.  Mother Teresa.

25. My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants. Brotherton, J.

26. If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.  Burke, Edmund.

27. If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.  -Anne Bradstreet.

28. It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.  -Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD).

  1. Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool. Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD) .

 

  1. Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous. -Sir Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682)

 

  1. Wisdom outweighs any wealth. –Sophocles.

 

 

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