Wealth Quotes - Page 22

• If some appalling disaster befalls, there's Always a way for the rich.

  Euripides

  Way, Rich, Disaster

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

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• The most affluent man is he that confronts all the shows he sees by equivalents out of the stronger wealth of himself.

  Walt Whitman

  Men, Stronger, Affluent

  Walt Whitman, David S. Reynolds (2005). “Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass”, p.9, Oxford University Press

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• The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.

  Sallust

  Fleeting, Virtue, Glory

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• Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it.

  Sophocles

  War, Fate, Ships

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.56, University of Chicago Press

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• Never underestimate the power of temptation to disarm your better senses. Throughout the ages good people surrendered their honor for the empty promise that wealth or power would bring fulfillment and their dignity, good name and self-esteem for the passing pleasures of sex and drugs.

  Michael Josephson

  Sex, Self Esteem, Names

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• At the same time as woman was becoming the showcase for wealth and caste, while men were slipping into relative anonymity and "handsome is as handsome does," she was emerging as the central emblem of western art.

  Germaine Greer

  Art, Men, Doe

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• There are great challenges before you, from the overwhelming nature of climate change to the unfairness of an economy that excludes so many from our collective wealth, and the changes necessary to build a more inclusive and generous Canada. I believe in you.

  Jack Layton

  Believe, Challenges, Climate

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• As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.

  Kabir

  Zest, Honey, Fool

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• If thy wealth waste, they wit will give but small warmth.

  John Lyly

  Giving, Waste, Poverty

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• Natural wealth is limited and easily obtained; the wealth defined by vain fancies is always beyond reach.

  Epicurus

  Fancy, Natural, Vain

  Epicurus (1964). “Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill”

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• Man is about to be an automaton; he is identifiable only in the computer. As a person of worth and creativity, as a being with an infinite potential, he retreats and battles the forces that make him inhuman. The dissent we witness is a reaffirmation of faith in man; it is protest against living under rules and prejudices and attitudes that produce the extremes of wealth and poverty and that make us dedicated to the destruction of people through arms, bombs, and gases, and that prepare us to think alike and be submissive objects for the regime of the computer.

  William O. Douglas

  Attitude, Creativity, Men

  "Points of Rebellion". Book by William O. Douglas, 1970.

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• The Rich arrived in pairs
  And also in Rolls Royces;
  They talked of their affairs
  In loud and strident voices...
  
  The Poor arrived in Fords,
  Whose features they resembled;
  They laughed to see so many Lords
  And Ladies all assembled.
  
  The People in Between
  Looked underdone and harassed,
  And our of place and mean,
  And Horribly embarrassed.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Mean, Voice, People

  Hilaire Belloc (1970). “Complete verse [of] H. Belloc: including Sonnets and verse, Cautionary verses, The modern traveller, etc”

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• There is no wealth but love.

  Marie Corelli

  Love

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• Peace is a great goal, but it is not a panacea. Neither is material wealth.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Goal, Panacea, Materials

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• In his heart everyone knows that the only people who get rich from the "get rich quick" books are those who write them.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Book, Writing, Heart

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• The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.

  Edmond de Goncourt

  Matter, Firsts, Facts

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• My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.

  Paul Tsongas

  Father, Land, Generations

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• ... the monotonous beauty of wealth.

  Judith Guest

  Monotonous

  Judith Guest (1982). “Ordinary People”, p.95, Penguin

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• For a moment man is a boy, for a moment a lovesick youth, for a moment bereft of wealth, for a moment in the height of prosperity; then at life's end with limbs worn out by old age and wrinkles adorning his face, like an actor he retires behind the curtain of death.

  Bhartrhari

  Boys, Men, Wrinkles

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• Wealth and honor, benefits and blessings shall enrich my life; poverty and failures, grief and anxiety shall help fulfill it. In my life, I will serve heaven and earth; in death I will find peace.

  Zhang Zai

  Grief, Blessing, Anxiety

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• If we have wealth, it will be protected from inflation and possibly even enhanced in value.

  William Greider

  Inflation, Protected, Ifs

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• What is wealth? A dream of fools.

  Abraham Cahan

  Dream, Fool

  Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• The advantages of wealth are greatly exaggerated.

  Leland Stanford

  Advantage, Exaggerated

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• All legislative experiments in the way of making forcible distribution of the wealth produced in any country have failed.

  Leland Stanford

  Country, Way, Distribution

  Leland Stanford (1887). “Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...”

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• If we have not developed a reservoir of spiritual wealth, no amount of money is likely to make us happy. Spiritual wealth provides faith. It gives us love. It brings and expands wisdom. Spiritual wealth leads to happiness because it guides us into useful or loving relationships.

  John Templeton

  Spiritual, Money, Giving

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