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Letter "W" » Wealth
"Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed
no more than seaweed.
[Lat., Et genus et virtus, nisi cum re, vilior alga est.]"
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
About: Wealth
"And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and
sold,
The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold."
Author: Richard Hovey
About: Wealth
"We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the
potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice."
Author: Samuel Johnson
About: Wealth
"Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home
Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy
To see how plump my bags are and my barns."
Author: Ben Jonson
About: Wealth
"Private credit is wealth; public honor is security; the feather
that adorns the royal bird supports its flight; strip him of his
plumage, and you fix him to the earth."
Author: Junius
About: Wealth
"Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
[Lat., Rarus enim ferme sunsus communis in illa
Fortuna.]"
Author: Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)
About: Wealth
"He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately.
[Lat., Dives fieri qui vult
Et cito vult fieri.]"
Author: Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)
About: Wealth
"It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great
fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous.
[Lat., Facile est momento quo quis velit, cedere possessione
magnae fortunae; facere et parare eam, difficile atque arduum
est.]"
Author: Titus Livy
About: Wealth
"The rich man's sons inherits cares;
The bank may break, the factory burn,
A breath may burst his bubble shares,
And soft, white hands could hardly earn
A living that would serve his turn."
Author: James Russell Lowell
About: Wealth
"Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses, to whom he
affordeth nothing else that is good."
Author: Martin Luther
About: Wealth
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