Wealth

(228 votes)   Wealth unused might as well not exist.

Aesop
620-560 BC, Greek Fabulist

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(191 votes)   A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if her were rich.

John Jacob Astor
1886-1962, American Newspaper Proprietor

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(186 votes)   There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

Mother Teresa
1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary

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(182 votes)   Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Marcus Valerius Martial
40-104, Latin poet and epigrammatist

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(155 votes)   But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal. [Matthew 6:20]

Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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(154 votes)   It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.

French Proverbs
Sayings of French Origin

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(151 votes)   A penny is a lot of money, if you have not got a penny.

Yiddish Proverbs
Sayings of Yiddish Origin

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(142 votes)   What a lot of things there are a man can do without.

Socrates
BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens

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(139 votes)   Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.

Jean Cocteau
1889-1963, French Author, Filmmaker

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(126 votes)   The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(118 votes)   There's nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger.

Wilson Mizner
1876-1933, American Author

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(116 votes)   No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(113 votes)   Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates, and men decay.

Oliver Goldsmith
1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright

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(100 votes)   What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(97 votes)   After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer.

American Proverbs
Sayings of American Origin

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