Wealth Quotes

• "Wealth is an imperious mistress; she requires the whole heart and life of man."
  By: Edouard Rene Lefebure Laboulaye
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• "This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor."
  By: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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• "He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately. [Lat., Dives fieri qui vult Et cito vult fieri.]"
  By: Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal), Satires (XIV, 176)
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• "Common sense among men of fortune is rare. [Lat., Rarus enim ferme sunsus communis in illa Fortuna.]"
  By: Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal), Satires (VIII, 73)
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• "Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns."
  By: Ben Jonson, Every Man Out of His Humour (act I, sc. 1)
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• "You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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• "Whosoever shall look heedfully upon those who are eminent for their riches will not think their condition such as that he should hazard his quiet, and much less his virtue, to obtain it, for all that great wealth generally gives above a moderate fortune is more room for the freaks of caprice, and more privilege for ignorance and vice, a quicker succession of flatteries, and a larger circle of voluptuousness."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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• "When the desire of wealth is taking hold of the heart, let us look round and see how it operates upon than whose industry or fortune has obtained it. When we find them oppressed with their own abundance, luxurious without pleasure, idle without ease, impatient and querulous in themselves, and despised or hated by the rest of mankind, we shall soon be convinced that if the real wants of our condition are satisfied, there remains little to be sought with solicitude or desired with eagerness."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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• "Wealth is nothing in itself; it is not useful but when it departs from us."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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• "We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature"), remark on the sale of Thrale's Brewery, 1781
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• "To purchase Heaven has gold the power? Can gold remove the mortal hour? In life can love be bought with gold? Are friendship's pleasures to be sold? No--all that's worth a wish--a thought, Fair virtue gives unbribed, unbought. Cease then on trash thy hopes to bind, Let nobler views engage thy mind."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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• "The insolence of wealth will creep out."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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• "Riches seldom make their owners rich."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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• "One cause of the insufficiency of riches (to produce happiness) is, that they very seldom make their owner rich."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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• "Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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• "And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold."
  By: Richard Hovey, Peace
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