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Jesus4 quotes
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. — Jesus · 60No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. — Jesus · 60For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? — Jesus · 60Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven. — Jesus · 60Benjamin Franklin3 quotes
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. — Benjamin Franklin · 1736Who is rich? He that rejoices in his Portion. — Benjamin Franklin · 1744He who multiplies Riches multiplies Cares. — Benjamin Franklin · 1744Francis Bacon2 quotes
Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress. — Francis Bacon · 1605Why should man be in love with his fetters, though of gold? — Francis Bacon · 1626Adam Smith1 quote
The chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches. — Adam Smith · 1776Amenemope1 quote
Do not set your heart on wealth…
Do not strain to seek increase,
What you have, let it suffice you.
If riches come by theft,
They will not stay the night with you….
They made themselves wings like geese,
And flew away to the sky. — Amenemope · 1075 BCAnatole France1 quote
In every well-governed state, wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing. — Anatole France · 1908Aristotle1 quote
The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool. — Aristotle · 322 BCArthur Schopenhauer1 quote
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we have, the thirstier we become, and the same is true of fame. — Arthur Schopenhauer · 1851Beatrice Kaufman1 quote
I've been rich, and I've been poor. Rich is better. — Beatrice Kaufman · 1937Ben Jonson1 quote
I glory
More in the cunning purchase of my wealth,
Than in the glad possession. — Ben Jonson · 1606Bion of Borysthenes1 quote
He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him. — Bion of BorysthenesCarlos Fuentes1 quote
In Eden the only wealth is nakedness and unawareness. — Carlos Fuentes · 1993E.M. Forster1 quote
To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it. — E.M. Forster · 1910Forrest Gump1 quote
Now mama said there’s only so much fortune a man really needs…and the rest is just for showing off. — Forrest Gump · 1994Franklin D. Roosevelt1 quote
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. — Franklin D. Roosevelt · 1933G.K. Chesterton1 quote
Among the Very Rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it. — G.K. Chesterton · 1912George Bernard Shaw1 quote
I am a Millionaire. That is my religion. — George Bernard Shaw · 1905Henry David Thoreau1 quote
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone. — Henry David Thoreau · 1854Hermann Hesse1 quote
Property, possessions and riches had also finally trapped him. They were no longer a game and a toy. They had become a chain and a burden. — Hermann Hesse · 1922Honore de Balzac1 quote
Prosperity brings with it an intoxication which inferior men are unable to resist. — Honore de Balzac · 1837Horace1 quote
It is not he who has many possessions that you should call blessed: he more rightly deserves that name who knows how to use the gods' gifts wisely and to endure harsh poverty, and who fears dishonor more than death. — Horace · 11 BCJ. Paul Getty1 quote
If you can actually count your money, then you are not really a rich man. — J. Paul Getty · 1957Jane Austen1 quote
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it. — Jane Austen · 1814Jim Carrey1 quote
I wish people could realize all their dreams and wealth and fame so that they could see that it’s not where you’re going to find your sense of completion. — Jim Carrey · 2014John Kenneth Galbraith1 quote
Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive. — John Kenneth Galbraith · 1958John Maynard Keynes1 quote
When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals... The love of money as a possession—as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life—will be recognized for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease. — John Maynard Keynes · 1930Kane1 quote
You know, Mr. Bernstein, if I hadn't been very rich, I might have been a really great man. — Kane · 1941Mark Twain1 quote
Virtue never has been as respectable as money. — Mark Twain · 1869Martin Luther1 quote
So our Lord God commonly gives riches to those gross asses to whom He vouchsafes nothing else. — Martin Luther · 1566Mary Astell1 quote
Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty. — Mary Astell · 1696