Riches Quotes

I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.

If a country can only be rich by running a successful race for low wages, I should be disposed to say at once, perish such riches!

It is a sin directly against one's neighbour, since one man cannot over-abound in external riches, without another man lacking them.

I have no problem with the concept of financial riches, but if you need to change the person you are in order to achieve that, I think you're taking too much of a gamble with your personal happiness.

Riches can be stolen-not richness.

Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion.

For often evil men are rich, and good men poor; But we will not exchange with them Our virtue for their wealth since one abides always, While riches change their owners every day.

To find riches is a beggar’s dream, but to find love is the dream of kings.

For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.

I care for riches, to make gifts.

Riches seldom make their owners rich.

In truth, it requires not only a large intellect, but a large heart, to judge with becoming charity of the peculiar temptations of riches.

It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets ... Riches got in such a hasty manner never wear well.

Self-denial is the best riches.

Material blessings fade and deteriorate, but your riches in Christ are everlasting.

From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.

Honor, riches, marriage-blessing Long continuance, and increasing, Hourly joys be still upon you!

I will give you the treasures of darkness, riches stored in secret places … In the most unlikely places I will bless your efforts and reward your perseverance with small indications of your victory.

That plenty should produce either covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of providence; and yet the generality of men are the worse for their riches.

The interests of the corporation state are to convert all the riches of the earth into dollars.

Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.

Las Vegas, Nevada: A city where oddities don't make you lame, But instead bring you riches and fortune and fame.

You are not kept poor by lack in the supply of riches.

Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches; and tho' avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.

If riches increase, let thy mind hold pace with them; and think it not enough to be liberal, but munificent.

Should your riches increase, let your mind keep pace with them.

No people ever yet benefited by riches if their prosperity corrupted their virtue.

Unfortunately I have no rags-to-riches story to tell. Money never played a big role for me. My parents just had it.

there are times when the one thing you haven't counts more than all the riches that may be yours.

When we see the shameful fortunes amassed in all quarters of the globe, are we not impelled to exclaim that Judas' thirty pieces of silver have fructified across the centuries?

It is a common fate -- a woman's lot -- To waste on one the riches of her soul, Who takes the wealth she gives him, but cannot Repay the interest, and much less the whole.

Riches may not bring happiness, but neither does poverty.

I think that most of us [writers] would rather have an audience than countless riches. If we wanted to be rich, we'd be doing smething else.

Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless, avarice is never satisfied.

Was Mann himself fully aware of all the facets of his irony? Probably not - any more than Shakespeare was fully aware of all the riches subsequent critics have found in his plays.

I've got a few guitars that I like. The trouble with fame and riches is that you have more than one guitar.

One always has riches when one has a book to read.

On their way to freedom, some people find riches, some people find death.

It is more pitiable once to have been rich than not to be rich now.

For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed and gratefully appreciated, they must be interrupted so the person can see that not having them is not as good as having them.

But I'm alone on my throne All these riches

He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.

I love energy. I love it. And I pursue it, and I want more of it. Physical and mental energy, to me, are the greatest riches of human life. And TM is like a free account of an endless amount of it.

Riches begin in the form of thought.

It is a wealthy person, indeed, who calculates riches not in gold but in friends.

I pray daily, not for more riches, but for more wisdom with which to recognize, embrace and enjoy what I already possess.

We who didn't inherit political power nor are made to acquire riches like nothing better than that which expands and solidifies the power of the spirit.

Quick riches are more dangerous than poverty.

It is not the fact that a man has riches which keeps him from the kingdom of heaven, but the fact that riches have him.

...hymns have been a powerful instrument of God to draw people closer to His Word and the saving riches therein.