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Letter "W" » Wealth
"Riches are deservedly despised by a man of honor, because a
well-stored chest intercepts the truth.
[Lat., Opes invisae merito sunt forti viro,
Quia dives arca veram laudem intercipit.]"
Author: Phaedrus (Thrace of Macedonia)
About: Wealth
"I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man.
[Lat., Nemini credo, qui large blandus est dives pauperi.]"
Author: Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
About: Wealth
"Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace;
If not, by any means get wealth and place."
Author: Alexander Pope
About: Wealth
"What riches give us let us then inquire:
Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire.
Is this too little?"
Author: Alexander Pope
About: Wealth
"Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think."
Author: Alexander Pope
About: Wealth
"All gold and silver rather turn to dirt,
An 'tis no better reckoned but of these
Who worship dirty gods."
Author: William Shakespeare
About: Wealth
"If thou art rich, thou'rt poor,
For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows,
Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey,
And death unloads thee."
Author: William Shakespeare
About: Wealth
"All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told;
Many a man his life hath sold;
But my outside to behold."
Author: William Shakespeare
About: Wealth
"O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year."
Author: William Shakespeare
About: Wealth
"Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends,
An incarnation of fat dividends."
Author: Charles Sprague
About: Wealth
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