Mom was an academic, so the riches that she had to bestow were of the mind.
A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
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.
Shelters, conservationists, those concerned about unnecessary cruelty toward the animals we eat, and people working against species extinction fight to preserve the true riches of our planet, our real inheritance. These are big, critical goals.
Riches don’t make a man rich, they only make him busier.
For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.
The anger from Occupy Wall Street is coming from this simple fact: America no longer seems to be a place where you can work your way up, from rags to riches, from lower class to middle class to upper class.
Riches cannot be gathered without sin and evil means.
To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
Though I have drawn my sword in the present generous struggle for the rights of men, yet I am not in arms as an American, nor am I in pursuit of riches. My fortune is liberal enough, having no wife nor family, and having lived long enough to know that riches cannot ensure happiness.
When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches – the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.
The Bible, for all its riches, is not a document of social history.
What is it worth to possess the riches of the world, when a man comes to face Eternity?
Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
I believe that we have been doing this not primarily to achieve riches or even honour, but rather because we were interested in the work, enjoyed doing it and felt very strongly that it was worthwhile.
It’s common knowledge that professional athletes earn extraordinary incomes. What is less known or understood is how the advent of these riches has seeped into the conscious and unconscious ways in which our society now parents children.
Many of those who once were so passionately in love with Christ now run about pursuing their own interests. They’re burdened down with stress and problems, chasing after riches and the things of this world.
Riches get their value from the mind of the possessor; they are blessings to those who know how to use them, and curses to those who do not.
Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.
Historically, art has always had a market. When one medieval fiefdom defeated another they would drag back its jewels, gold, tapestries and art objects as the spoils of war. Art equaled power, riches and culture.
If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.
Unimaginable riches for the few, disaster for the many – that’s the new American way.
History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Truly a man does not live by bread alone. A good name is still to be preferred over great riches. Especially is it to be preferred to the appearance of riches, acquired with nothing down and nothing to pay for two months.
Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.
My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.
When I was a lad, my parents and all their equivalents never lusted after other people’s riches or success.
Memphis is the place where rock was born and Martin Luther King, Jr., was killed. It’s full of contradictions, abject poverty, and riches that only music can provide.
The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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.
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
The windfall of great riches can, if mismanaged, make things worse, not better, for the recipients.
If any among you covet riches, let him endeavour to overcome, for the victorious not only preserve their own possessions but acquire those of the enemy.
Corruption is Africa’s greatest problem. Not poverty. Not lack of riches. Not racism.
You have to, in a way, just get your head down and do the work and not expect every day to bring riches and not expect every minute to bring wild excitement, ’cause it just doesn’t. It doesn’t on films, anyway.
A man’s true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.
The word ‘America’ probably didn’t appear in the Persian language until the end of the 18th century – but then with a documented past stretching back at least 5,000 years, the east had riches of its own.
False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.
Before the palefaces came among us, we enjoyed the happiness of unbounded freedom and were acquainted with neither riches, wants, nor oppression.
With the proper motivation, you can do anything. I was just a poor kid that ate pork and beans out of a can and apple sauce. I went from rags to riches. But it does take a lot of determination, inner strength, drive, and discipline.
‘Maneater’ is about N.Y.C. in the ’80s. It’s about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches.
I do not ask for the riches that perish or the fame that fades away like a morning mist.
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