Wealth Quotes

• "If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel."
  By: Jonathan Swift, Letter to Miss Vanhomrigh
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• "The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable; for the happy impute all their success to prudence and merit."
  By: Jonathan Swift
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• "The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it."
  By: Sir Richard Steele, in the "Tatler", no. 203
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• "No, he was no such charlatan-- Count de Hoboken Flash-in-the-Pan-- Full of gasconade and bravado, But a regular, rich Don Rataplane, Santa Claus de la Muscavado, Senor Grandissimo Bastinado! His was the rental of half Havana And all Matanzas; and Santa Ana, Rich as he was, could hardly hold A candle to light the mines of gold Our Cuban owned."
  By: Edmund Clarence Stedman, The Diamond Wedding (st. 7)
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• "If all the rich people in the world divided up their money amongst themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around."
  By: Christina Stead
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• "Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends, An incarnation of fat dividends."
  By: Charles Sprague, Curiosity (st. 25)
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• "One man pursues power in order to possess wealth, and another pursues wealth in order to possess power; which last is the safer way, and generally followed."
  By: Bishop Robert South
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• "If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it."
  By: Socrates
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• "A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason than he can of a horse without a bridle."
  By: Socrates
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• "To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and keep absolutely sober."
  By: Logan Pearsall Smith
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• "Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates."
  By: Henry Wheeler Shaw (used pseudonyms Josh Billings and Uncle Esek)
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• "O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor (Anne Page at III, iv)
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• "All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told; Many a man his life hath sold; But my outside to behold."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (Morocco at II, vii), requoting a proverb
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• "If thou art rich, thou'rt poor, For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows, Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey, And death unloads thee."
  By: William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure (Vincentio, the Duke at III, i)
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• "All gold and silver rather turn to dirt, An 'tis no better reckoned but of these Who worship dirty gods."
  By: William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (Arviragus at III, vi)
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• "How i' the name of thrift doth he rake this together?"
  By: William Shakespeare
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