Wealth Quotes

• "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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• "Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed. [Lat., Et genus et virtus, nisi cum re, vilior alga est.]"
  By: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Satires (II, 5, 8)
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• "For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches. [Lat., Omnis enim res, Virtus, fama, decus, divina, humanaque pulchris Divitiis parent.]"
  By: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Satires (II, 3, 94)
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• "Riches either serve or govern the possessor. [Lat., Imperat aut servit collecta pecunia cuique.]"
  By: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Epistles (I, 10, 47)
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• "The accumulation of wealth is followed by an increase of care, and by an appetite for more."
  By: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
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• "Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty."
  By: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
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• "Know from the bounteous heavens all riches flow; And what man gives, the gods by man bestow."
  By: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Odyssey (bk. XVIII, l. 26), (Pope's translation)
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• "These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!"
  By: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Odyssey (bk. IV, l. 118), (Pope's translation)
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• "Wealth is the least trustworthy of anchors."
  By: Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym Timothy Titcomb)
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• "Wants keep pace with wealth always."
  By: Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym Timothy Titcomb)
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• "Wealth brings noble opportunities, and competence is a proper object of pursuit; but wealth, and even competence, may be bought at too high a price. Wealth itself has no moral attribute. It is not money, but the love of money, which is the root of all evil. It is the relation between wealth and the mind and the character of its possessor which is the essential thing."
  By: George Stillman Hillard
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• "For wealth, without contentment, climbs a hill, To feel those tempests which fly over ditches."
  By: George Herbert, The Church Porch (st. 19)
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• "Money, thou bane of bliss, and source of woe, Whence cam'st thou, that thou art so fresh and fine? I know thy parentage is base and low: Man found thee poor and dirty in a mine."
  By: George Herbert
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• "There is a burden of care in getting riches, fear in keeping them, temptation in using them, guilt in abusing them, sorrow in losing them, and a burden of account at last to be given up concerning them."
  By: Matthew (Mathew) Henry
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• "Dame Nature gave him comeliness and health, And Fortune (for a passport) gave him wealth."
  By: Walter Harte, Eulogies (411)
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• "Poverty breeds wealth; and wealth in its turn breeds poverty. The earth, to form the mould, is taken out of the ditch; and whatever may be the height of the one will be the depth of the other."
  By: A.W. Hare and J.C. Hare
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