Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little? (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
All gold and silver rather turn to dirt, An 'tis no better reckoned but of these Who worship dirty gods. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told; Many a man his life hath sold; But my outside to behold. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends, An incarnation of fat dividends. (Quote by - Charles Sprague)
The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it. (Quote by - Sir Richard Steele)
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
No good man ever became suddenly rich. (Quote by - Syrus)
He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he be exalted above his neighbors because he hath more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine! (Quote by - Jeremy Taylor)
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone. (Quote by - Jeremy Taylor)
I've been rich and I've been poor; rich is better. (Quote by - Jeremy Taylor)
Much learning shows how little mortals know: Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy. (Quote by - Edward Young)
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose? (Quote by - Don Marquis)
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
A learned man has always wealth in himself. (Quote by - Latin Proverb)
Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. (Quote by - Arabian Proverb)
Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power. (Quote by - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu)
I have no riches but my thoughts Yet these are wealth enough for me. (Quote by - Sara Teasdale)
Wealth is well known to be a great comforter. (Quote by - Plato)
Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich. (Quote by - Proverb)