Monetary Wealth Quotes

Money has never yet made anyone rich.

I made a small fortune. I made a lot of money and I made a lot of other people wealthy.

If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.

Sleep is for those people who are broke.

What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?" Grandeur has but little," said Elinor, "but wealth has much to do with it." Elinor, for shame!" Said Marianne. "Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.

Fame is important, but to be rich is more important.

Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

Wealth is not wisdom's goal, but is often wisdom's reward.

Riches exclude only one inconvenience,--that is, poverty.

Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth.

When moneys in a purse in my own pocket / It means wealth.

Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.

Riches ennoble a man's circumstances, but not himself.

There is wealth but no wellbeing. What are you going to do with this wealth?

There are two things that bestow consequence; great possession, or great debts.

Modern power depends on money and guns. And we have the most of both.

There is nothing like wealth for dulling desire.

You can be rich and not be famous. You can be famous and not be rich. But to be rich and famous is a special category all by itself.

The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it.

It will be found, that as some particular Men in a Town grow richer, and thrive better than others; so also do Nations, who by Trade serving the occasions of their Neighbors, supply themselves with what they have occasion for from abroad; which done, the rest is laid up, and is Silver, Gold, etc. for as I said, these being commutable for everything, and of small bulk, are still preferr'd to be laid up, till occasion shall call them out to supply other Necessaries wanted.

Although wealth may not bring happiness, the immediate prospect of it provides a wonderfully close imitation.

The greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune.

Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me.

Some people, of course, can be happier with the cars, the fancy threads, the hilltop mansion, and the other status symbols of 'having made it', but I found that several of my most prized possessions were slipping away, despite all the fortune I had amassed.