Money and Wealth

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Poor is the man who desires a lot.

That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches.

I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.

The cost of living hasn't effected its popularity.

When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.

Let none admire That riches grow in hell; that soil may best Deserve the precious bane.

Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold, And almost every vice—almighty gold.

The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow’r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave, Awaits alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, Prove false again? Two hundred more.

While money doesn’t talk, it swears.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

There are only two families in the world … the haves and the have-nots.

Water is best. But gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.

We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics.

I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker in this cause. The example of great and pure characters is the only thing that can produce fine ideas and noble deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Things could be much worse. I could be one of my creditors.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.