Quotes about Wealth

Inordinate desire for material possessions can become an obsession that consumes our thoughts, drains our resources, and leads to unhappiness.

The rich women, to avoid dividing the inheritance among many, kill their own fetus in the womb and with murderous juices extinguish in the genital chamber their children.

Wealthy women have rights in every country. And poor women don't.

The most expensive jewels are not found around our necks, but in our hearts.

If you choose money over love, you will always be poor.

Your strength lies in knowledge, your power lies in wisdom, your treasure lies in understanding, and your wealth lies in life.

If you have nothing but joy in this life, you are still rich.

If they ask you how rich you are, tell them to look inside your heart.

If we had a penny for each time God smiled at us, we would all be billionaires.

What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue.

Civilization, therefore, or that which is so-called, has operated two ways: to make one part of society more affluent, and the other more wretched,than would have been the lot of either in a natural state.

In England a king hath little more to do than to make war and give away places; which in plain terms, is to impoverish the nation and set it together by the ears. A pretty business indeed for a man to be allowed eight hundred thousand sterling a year for, and worshipped into the bargain! Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.