| "It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue." »Socrates |
| "wealth is not his that has it, but his who enjoys it." »Benjamin Franklin |
| "Wisdom outweighs any wealth." »Sophocles |
| "He does not possess wealth it possesses him." »Benjamin Franklin |
| "I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody." »Barack Obama |
| "The greatest wealth is to live content with little." »Plato |
| "wealth and children are the adornment of life." »Koran |
| "A man can go on without wealth, and even without purpose, for a while. But he will not go on without hope." »C. Neil Strait |
| "wealth is the product of man's capacity to think." »Ayn Rand |
| "Children are a poor man's wealth." »Danish proverb |
| "The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
| "In wealth many friends in poverty, not even relatives." »Japanese Proverb |
| "Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous." »Sir Thomas Browne |
| "A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world." »Mohammad |
| "An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth." »Bonnie Friedman |
| "It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "wealth stays with us a little moment if at all only our characters are steadfast, not our gold." »Euripides |
| "The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate." »Euripides |
| "wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool." »Seneca |
| "It is the sign of a week mind to be unable to bear wealth." »Seneca |
| "wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed." »Confucius |
| "The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money." »Anonymous |
| "We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." »Louis D. Brandeis |
| "It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed." »Kin Hubbard |
| "The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving." »Russell Green |
| "The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile virtue is a possession glorious and eternal." »Sallust |
| "wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent." »Plato |
| "Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes." »Oprah Winfrey |
| "wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive." »John Kenneth Galbraith |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
