Riches Quotes
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The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their grave only the bruises and marks of their toil.
Saint Augustine
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Riches begin in the form of thought.
Napoleon Hill
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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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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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Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law.
Henry Ward Beecher
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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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The smallness of our desires may contribute reasonably to our wealth.
William Cobbett
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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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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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Do not praise an undeserving man because of his riches.
Bias of Priene
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Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
Henry Ward Beecher
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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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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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Banks and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.
Edmund Ruffin
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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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Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare, But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.
Bill Vaughan
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Satiety comes of riches and contumaciousness of satiety.
Solon
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Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
John Locke Nazareth