Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Sunday

Riches have never yet given anybody either peace or rest.

Diana Ross

My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches' but in fact, the Ross's were never raggedy.

Daniel Gilbert

Our inability to recall how we really felt is why our wealth of experiences turns out to be poverty of riches.

Charles Spurgeon

Gospel riches are sent to remove our wretchedness, and mercy to remove our misery.

Eleanora Duse

I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them.

Benjamin Franklin

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

Deborah Kerr

[Autobiographies] are all the same - it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned if I'm going to say that.

Alexis de Tocqueville

It is certain that despotism ruins individuals by preventing them from producing wealth much more than by depriving them of what they have already produced; it dries up the source of riches, while it usually respects acquired property. Freedom, on the contrary, produces far more goods than it destroys; and the nations which are favored by free institutions invariably find that their resources increase even more rapidly than their taxes.

Riches without faith are the greatest poverty.

I have no riches but my thoughts, yet these are wealth enough for me.

Confucius

If you did not do so for the sake of riches,You must have done so for the sake of novelty.

Andy Stanley

My hope is not in riches but in him who richly provides.

Anne Frank

There's plenty of room for everyone in the world. Enough money, riches, and beauty for all to share. God has made enought for everyone, so let us all begin then by sharing it fairly.

Anne Frank

The world has plenty of room, riches, money and beauty ... Let us begin by dividing it more fairly.

Christopher Marlowe

Infinite riches in a little room.

It's the little things that make up the richest part of the tapestry of our lives.

Leonardo da Vinci

That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches.

Letitia Baldrige

There is no substitute for the riches gained on a lifetime basis by the young American who studies or works abroad.

Mary Wortley Montagu

'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Morals today are corrupted by our worship of riches.

Benjamin Franklin

If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with to the other world?

George Herbert

Gentility is nothing but Ancient Riches.

Francis Bacon

Riches are for spending.

John Piper

The great danger of riches is that our affections will be carried away from God to His gifts.

Martin Luther

Not only the adoration of images is idolatry, but also trust in one's own righteousness, works and merits, and putting confidence in riches and power. As the latter is the commonest, so it also is the most noxious.

Matthew Henry

The riches we impart are the only wealth we shall always retain.

Plautus

Riches, rightly used, breed delight.

John Milton

Therefore, if at great things thou wouldst arrive, Get riches first, get wealth.

Miguel de Cervantes

Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws.

Mason Cooley

The rich are never as possessed by their riches as the poor are by their poverty.

Michael Mandelbaum

The windfall of great riches can, if mismanaged, make things worse, not better, for the recipients.

Rainer Maria Rilke

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

Horace

Riches either serve or govern the possessor.