Riches Quotes
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Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.
Horace Greeley
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The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.
Josiah Strong
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You could have all the riches in the world, but it doesn't mean much without family.
Alicia Keys
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Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law.
Henry Ward Beecher
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My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches' but in fact, the Ross's were never raggedy.
Diana Ross
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I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them.
Eleonora Duse
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Do not praise an undeserving man because of his riches.
Bias of Priene
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Las Vegas, Nevada: A city where oddities don't make you lame, But instead bring you riches and fortune and fame.
Walter Wykes
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Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
Henry Ward Beecher
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The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.
Charles A. Reich
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Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws.
Miguel de Cervantes
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I care for riches, to make gifts.
Euripides
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Success always calls for greater generosity - though most people, lost in the darkness of their own egos, treat it as an occasion for greater greed. Collecting boot is not an end itself, but only a means for building an empire. Riches would be of little use to us now - except as a means of winning new friends.
Cyrus the Great
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If an abundance of those things which a people considers the goods and the riches of the earth defines wealth, then it follows that that particular culture is wealthy in proportion to the production and distribution of just those things and no others; and it does not depend upon what another people may consider the goods and riches, no matter how greatly those things have multiplied for them, nor how many individuals they have to possess them. What industrialism counts as the goods and riches of the earth the agrarian South does not, nor ever will.
Andrew Nelson Lytle
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The smallness of our desires may contribute reasonably to our wealth.
William Cobbett
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In the same way that we today think that the slave trade and colonial exploitation were inhuman and inconceivably bestial ways of acquiring riches, there is no doubt that coming generations will think that our form of world trade and distribution of the world's benefits were just as inconceivable and inhuman.
Erik Dammann
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Every person who will learn the right way, and who will then continue diligently to follow that right way, is absolutely certain in time to possess great riches and all attending blessings.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford
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Satiety comes of riches and contumaciousness of satiety.
Solon
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Bathe in your riches and friends, I'll stay here with my songbooks and pens
Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
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The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed to health food.
Waverley Root
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I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
Red Cloud
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Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.
Solon
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Great riches come to many men by chance.
Bias of Priene
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A tax is always a sacrifice which the government demands of individuals.While it only lessens every one's personal enjoyments, it only shifts expenses from one to another.But when it encroaches on productive consumption it diminishes public riches.
Antoine Destutt de Tracy