Quotes · Skopia

49 quotes

Matthew 19:24 · 60

★ 9.3

Philosophical literature

The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.

Aristotle

Rhetoric · 322 BC

★ 5.7

Scripture · Religious literature

No 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

Matthew 6:24 · 60

★ 4.5

Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue · Philosophical literature

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Socrates

Plato, Republic · 375 BC

★ 4.0

Political literature · Philosophical literature

Riches, knowledge and honour are but several sorts of power.

Thomas Hobbes

Leviathan · 1651

★ 4.0

Scripture · Religious literature

He that trusteth in his riches shall fall.

Proverbs 11:28

686 BC

★ 3.9

Almanac

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

Benjamin Franklin

1736

★ 3.9

Almanac

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his Portion.

Benjamin Franklin

1744

★ 3.9

Almanac

He who multiplies Riches multiplies Cares.

Benjamin Franklin

1744

★ 3.9

Film · Drama (film) · Drama

Now mama said there’s only so much fortune a man really needs…and the rest is just for showing off.

Forrest Gump

Forrest Gump · 1994

★ 3.9

Scripture · Religious literature

For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?

Jesus

Matthew 16:26 · 60

★ 3.8

Speech · Political speech

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

First Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt · 1933

★ 3.8

Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, But we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.

Solon

Plutarch, Plutarch's Lives · 560 BC

★ 3.7

Scripture · Religious literature

Do 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

Matthew 6:19-20 · 60

★ 3.7

So our Lord God commonly gives riches to those gross asses to whom He vouchsafes nothing else.

Martin Luther

1566

★ 3.7

Philosophical literature

Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress.

Francis Bacon

1605

★ 3.7

Essay

Why should man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?

Francis Bacon

The Remains · 1626

★ 3.7

People have declaimed against luxury for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it.

Voltaire

1764

★ 3.7

Short story

In Eden the only wealth is nakedness and unawareness.

Carlos Fuentes

1993

★ 3.7

Scripture · Religious literature

Give me neither poverty nor riches.

Proverbs 30:8

686 BC

★ 3.6

Play · Comedy (play)

I glory More in the cunning purchase of my wealth, Than in the glad possession.

Ben Jonson

Volpone · 1606

★ 3.6

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we have, the thirstier we become, and the same is true of fame.

Arthur Schopenhauer

1851

★ 3.6

Play · Drama (play)

I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

George Bernard Shaw

1905

★ 3.6

Newspaper

I've been rich, and I've been poor. Rich is better.

Beatrice Kaufman

1937

★ 3.6

Sociology · Economic literature

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

The Affluent Society · 1958

★ 3.6

Essay · Feminist literature

Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.

Mary Astell

An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex · 1696

★ 3.5

Novel

In every well-governed state, wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.

Anatole France

1908

★ 3.5

Speech · Commencement address

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

2014

★ 3.5

Essay

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

1912

★ 3.5

Economic literature

The chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

Adam Smith

The Wealth of Nations · 1776

★ 2.3

Novel

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

Mansfield Park · 1814

★ 2.2

Autobiography and memoir

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

Henry David Thoreau

Walden · 1854

★ 2.2

Essay · Philosophical literature

A great fortune is a great slavery.

Seneca

★ 2.1

Film · Drama (film) · Drama

You know, Mr. Bernstein, if I hadn't been very rich, I might have been a really great man.

Kane

Citizen Kane · 1941

★ 2.1

Song · Rock music

Please allow me to introduce myself I'm a man of wealth and taste.

The Rolling Stones

Sympathy for the Devil · 1968

★ 2.1

Historical literature

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Sallust

The War of Catiline · 42 BC

★ 2.0

Poem

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

Odes · 11 BC

★ 2.0

Biography · Historical literature

How strongly does this bear out the truth of Plato's maxim, that he who wishes to be really rich ought to lessen his desires rather than increase his property, because if a man places no bounds to his covetousness, he never will be free from want and misery.

Plutarch

Plutarch's Lives

★ 2.0

Wisdom literature

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 BC

★ 1.9

Play · Comedy (play)

They are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing.

William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice · 1598

★ 1.9

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