Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old wealthy quotes, wealthy sayings, and wealthy proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
The greatest wealth is contentment with a little.Apocrypha Ecclesiasticus
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Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse.Chilon
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Light gains make heavy purses.English Proverb
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Excess of wealth is the cause of covetousness.Christopher Marlowe
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There are those who gain from their wealth only the fear of losing it.Antoine Rivaroli
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There's nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger.Wilson Mizner
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The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.Cervantes
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The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth which you have given away.Martial
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Natural wealth is limited and easily obtained; the wealth defined by vain fancies is always beyond reach.Epicurus
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A man that will not permit his wealth to do any good to others while he is living prevents him from doing any good to himself when he is dead.Charles Caleb Colton
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The wealth of man is the number of things which he loves and blesses, which he is loved and blessed by.Carlyle
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Abundance is a blessing o the wise. The use of riches in discretion lies; Learn this, ye people of wealth— a heavy purse in a fool's pocket is a heavy curse.Richard Cumberland
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Let none admire / That riches grow in hell; that soil may best / Deserve the precious bane.John Milton
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I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, but it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground, I'm just wearing better shoes.Oprah Winfrey
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A very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything but not enough to do nothing.Warren Buffett
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Wealthy men are generally insolvent and arrogant; their possession of wealth affects their understanding; they feel as if they have every good thing that exists; wealth becomes a sort of standard for everything else, and therefore they imagine there is nothing it can't buy.Aristotle
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Riches are not from an abundance of worldly goods but from a contented mind.Muhammad
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Riches prick us with a thousand troubles in getting them, as many cares in preserving them, and yet more anxiety in spending them, and with grief in losing them.Francis de Assisi
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Wealth does not teach us to transcend the desire for wealth. The possession of many goods does not bring the repose of not desiring them.Madame de Sable
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The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it is our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.William James
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The real measure of our wealth is how much we'd be worth if we lost all our money.J.H. Jowett
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Your wealth can be stolen but the precious riches buried deep in your soul cannot.Minnie Riperton