3,637 Quotes About Wealth

Earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected.... Hoarding is idolatry.

To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.

Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

As the cream abandons the milk from which it took its life, and rises to the top and rides there, so men, because they are richer than those around about them, separate themselves, and all mankind below them they regard as skim milk.

The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.

Nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a large one.

We all covet wealth, but not its perils.

Misers are neither relations, nor friends, nor citizens, nor Christians, nor perhaps even human beings.