Wealth Quotes - Page 33

• Alas! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around, Nor that content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Meditation, Sage, Calm

  'Stanzas Written in Dejection, near Naples' (1818)

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• Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Titles, Libel, Tinsel

  1812 Declaration of Rights, article 27.

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• I have sometimes thought there could be no stronger testimony in favor of Religion or against temporal Enjoyments even the most rational and manly than for men who occupy the most honorable and gainful departments and are rising in reputation and wealth, publicly to declare their unsatisfactoriness by becoming fervent Advocates in the cause of Christ, & I wish you may give in your Evidence in this way. Such instances have seldom occurred, therefore they would be more striking and would be instead of a "Cloud of Witnesses.

  James Madison

  Men, Clouds, Giving

  James Madison (1962). “The Papers of James Madison”

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• As soon as I find myself in the presence of a rich man, I cannot help looking upon him as an exceptional and beautiful being, as a sort of marvellous divinity, and, in spite of myself, surmounting my will and my reason, I feel rising, from the depths of my being, toward this rich man, who is very often an imbecile, and sometimes a murderer, something like an incense of admiration. Is it not stupid? And why? Why?

  Octave Mirbeau

  Beautiful, Stupid, Men

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• It doesn't matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serve a great cause: accretion of the national wealth.

  Anton Chekhov

  Book, Together, Library

  Letter to S.P. Kuvshinnikova, December 25, 1888.

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• Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst.

  Marie Corelli

  Mirrors, Kind, Human Nature

  Marie Corelli (2015). “The Sorrows of Satan”, p.123, Booklassic

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• There are no causes of poverty. It is the rest state, that which happens when you don't do anything. If you want to experience poverty, just do nothing, and it will come…. We should ask what are the causes of wealth and try to recreate and reproduce them.

  Madsen Pirie

  Trying, Want, Poverty

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• There are no causes of poverty. To ask what causes poverty is like asking what causes coldit is the absence of energy. Similarly poverty is the absence of wealth. We should ask, ‘what are the causes of wealth?’

  Madsen Pirie

  Energy, Asking, Poverty

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• I know no better way to show true patriotism and love for one's country, than investing to create wealth and employment.

  Strive Masiyiwa

  Country, And Love, Employment

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• The Unheavenly Chorus is the definitive study of participatory inequality in America. Marshaling prodigious evidence, the authors show how money not only buys influence directly but also affects associations that are supposed to be democratic antidotes to concentrated wealth. A monumental achievement of careful scholarship, this book offers real knowledge of how politics actually operates.

  Robert Kuttner

  Real, Book, America

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• You don't need to come from wealth or privilege to make a difference.

  Joni Ernst

  Differences, Making A Difference, Needs

  Republican Response to State of the Union, www.weeklystandard.com. January 20, 2015.

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• Small things are best: Grief and unrest To rank and wealth are given; But little things On little wings Bear little souls to Heaven.

  Frederick William Faber

  Grief, Wings, Heaven

  Frederick William Faber (1857). “Poems ... Second edition”, p.198

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• The use we make of our fortune determines its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely, and too much if expended foolishly.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Use, Littles, Too Much

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• The Wealth of Nations may not be an original book, but it is unquestionably a masterpiece.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Book, May, Masterpiece

  Robert L. Heilbroner (1955). “The Great Economists: Their Lives and Their Conceptions of the World”

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• The wise man knoweth where to stop, as he runneth in the race of fortune, For experience of old hath taught him, that happiness lingered midway; And many in hot pursuit have hasted to the goal of wealth, But have lost, as they ran, those apples of gold--the mind and the power to enjoy it.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Wise, Men, Race

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1850). “Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments. 1st and 2d Series in One Volume”, p.124

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• Wealth hath never given happiness, but often hastened misery.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Misery, Given

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1857). “Complete poetical works: containing: Proverbial philosophy, A thousand lines, Hactenus, Geraldine, and miscellaneous poems. With a portrait of the author”, p.85

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• Wealth oft-times killeth, where want but hindered the budding.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Want

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1856). “Tupper's complete poetical works: containing "Proverbial philosophy," "A thousand lines," "Hactenus," "Geraldine," and "Miscellaneous poems :" With a portrait of the author”, p.82

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• There is a limit to enjoyment, though the sources of wealth be boundlessAnd the choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Lying, Limits, Moderation

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1857). “Complete poetical works: containing: Proverbial philosophy, A thousand lines, Hactenus, Geraldine, and miscellaneous poems. With a portrait of the author”, p.20

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• The wise treat self-respect as non-negotiable, and will not trade it for health or wealth or anything else.

  Thomas Szasz

  Wise, Self, Treats

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1973). “The second sin”, Anchor

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• Wealth and Content are not always Bed-fellows.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Bed, Fellows

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “The Way to Wealth: Advice, Hints, and Tips on Business, Money, and Finance”, p.84, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• By the year 1982 the graduated income tax will have practically
  abolished major differences in wealth.

  Irwin Edman

  Years, Differences, Income

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• All this [wealth] excludes but one evil, poverty.

  Samuel Johnson

  Evil, Poverty

  "Life of Samuel Johnson". Book by James Boswell, 1777.

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• The fame of the rich man dies with him; the fame of the treasure, and not of the man who possessed it, remains.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Treasure, Riches

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.965, Delphi Classics

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• There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavour of life until he has known poverty, love and war. The justness of this reflection commends it to the lover of condensed philosophy. The three conditions embrace about all there is in life worth knowing. A surface thinker might deem that wealth should be added to the list. Not so. When a poor man finds a long-hidden quarter-dollar that has slipped through a rip into his vest lining, he sounds the pleasure of life with a deeper plummet than any millionaire can hope to cast.

  O. Henry

  Philosophy, War, Rip

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.621, Delphi Classics

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• The man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was his to administer during his life, will pass away unwept, unhonoured and insung no matter to what uses he leaves the dross which he cannot take with him.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Men, Leaving, Passing Away

  "The Gospel of Wealth and Other Timely Essays". Book by Andrew Carnegie, 1900.

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