Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

John McCarthy

An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.

William Shakespeare

Allow not nature more than nature needs.

Gretchen Rubin

Don't keep excessive amounts of anything. Those glass vases that come from florists. Those ketchup packets that come with take-out food. A house with two adults probably doesn't need fifteen mismatched souvenir coffee cups.

Edmund Burke

The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all States.

Juvenal

An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many.

Kate Smith

Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food.

Camille Paglia

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

Bob Beauprez

Careful economic research has shown public-sector workers receive a level of compensation, pension benefits, and retiree health coverage in excess of what comparable workers in the private sector enjoy. In some instances, the total premium can be 30 percent or higher.

David Korten

Money is not wealth. Money is a claim on wealth.

Chanakya

He who has wealth has friends.

Babe Ruth

Wealth is always attracted, never pursued.

Brian Aldiss

I have had wealth, rank and power, but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be.

Juvenal

Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.

Carl Lewis

I always wanted to be wealthy. I did.

Calvin Coolidge

Of course, the accumulation of wealth cannot be justified as the chief end of existence,

Charles M. Schwab

Spending creates more wealth for everybody.

Bob Brown

Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.