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  • Riches, rightly used, breed delight. -- Plautus
  • Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life. -- Henry Ward Beecher
  • Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss. -- Epicurus
  • Riches, though they may reward virtues, yet they cannot cause them; he is much more noble who deserves a benefit than he who bestows one. -- Owen Feltham
  • Riches are for spending. -- Francis Bacon
  • Riches make cowards of us ... -- Margaret Ayer Barnes
  • Riches can be stolen-not richness. -- Rishi Prabhakar
  • Riches seldom make their owners rich. -- Samuel Johnson
  • Gentility is nothing but Ancient Riches. -- George Herbert
  • Acquire Riches by Industry and Frugality. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • Riches cover a multitude of woes. -- Menander
  • Riches begin in the form of thought. -- Napoleon Hill
  • Real riches are the riches possessed inside. -- B. C. Forbes
  • Riches either serve or govern the possessor. -- Horace
  • Riches without faith are the greatest poverty. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
  • Riches do not make one rich but busy. -- Fernando de Rojas
  • Riches I need not, nor man's empty praise. -- Alfred Korzybski
  • Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream. -- William Cowper
  • Riches exclude only one inconvenience,--that is, poverty. -- Samuel Johnson
  • Riches attract attention, consideration, and congratulations of mankind. -- John Adams
  • Riches ennoble a man's circumstances, but not himself. -- Immanuel Kant
  • Riches will come when you follow Cosmic Ordering. -- Stephen Richards
  • Riches bring anxiety; wisdom gives peace of mind. -- Solomon Ibn Gabirol
  • Riches, understanding, beauty, are fair gifts of God. -- Martin Luther
  • Riches are well, if gotten well and spent well. -- Vespasian
  • Riches are chiefly good because they give us time. -- Charles Lamb
  • Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws. -- Miguel de Cervantes
  • Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance. -- Joseph Addison
  • Riches may not bring happiness, but neither does poverty. -- Sophie Irene Loeb
  • Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress. -- Francis Bacon
  • Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is. -- Saint John Chrysostom
  • Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue. -- Horace
  • An acronym for grace is God's Riches At Christ's Expense. -- Renee Swope
  • Riches have never yet given anybody either peace or rest. -- Billy Sunday
  • Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless, avarice is never satisfied. -- Horace
  • Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law -- Henry Ward Beecher
  • Riches, perhaps, do not so often produce crimes as incite accusers. -- Samuel Johnson
  • Riches are a stronghold in the imagination of a rich man. -- Solomon
  • Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier. -- Christopher Columbus
  • Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth. -- Ovid
  • Riches are the savings of many in the hands of one. -- Eugene V. Debs
  • Riches for the most part are hurtful to them that possess them. -- Plutarch
  • Riches should come as the reward for hard work, preferably by one's forebears -- Steven Runciman
  • Content and Riches seldom meet together, Riches take thou, contentment I had rather. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Riches are not from abundance of worldly goods, but from a contented mind. -- Nazr Mohammed
  • Riches, when they come in huge quantities, are never the result of HARD work! -- Napoleon Hill
  • Riches does not mean, having a great amount of property, but riches is self-contentment. -- Muhammad
  • Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave. -- John Dryden
  • Justice waits upon the great, Interest holds the scale, and Riches turns the balance. -- Delarivier Manley
  • Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart. -- Joseph Addison
  • Riches are not only measured by money but the wisdom and knowledge you possess. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable. -- Miguel de Cervantes
  • Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away,but love stays with us. Love is God. -- Lew Wallace
  • Wealth cannot purchase any great private solace or convenience. Riches are only the means of sociality. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss. -- Dick Gregory
  • Riches is nothing in the face of the Lord, for He can see into the heart. -- William Faulkner
  • Riches naturally beget pride, love of the world, and every temper that is destructive of Christianity. -- John Wesley
  • Riches are but a means, or instrument; and the virtue of an instrument lies in its use. -- Benjamin Whichcote
  • Riches are intended for the comfort of life, and not life for the purpose of hoarding riches. -- Saadi
  • Riches are of no value in themselves; their use is discovered only in that which they procure. -- Samuel Johnson
  • Riches are always over estimated; the enjoyment they give is more in the pursuit than the possession. -- Sarah Josepha Hale
  • Riches amassed in haste will diminish; but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Riches don't respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence. -- Napoleon Hill
  • Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits. -- Heloise
  • Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches. -- Samuel Smiles
  • A little House well fill'd, a little Field well till'd, and a little Wife well will'd, are great Riches. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets ... Riches got in such a hasty manner never wear well. -- Sarah Josepha Hale
  • Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character. -- Horace Greeley
  • If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich. -- Martial
  • Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others. -- Henry Fielding
  • Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. -- Oscar Wilde
  • What is Fortune, what is Fame? Futile gold and phantom name- Riches buried in a cave, Glory written on a grave. -- Henry Van Dyke
  • All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish. -- William James
  • Riches do not come by crossing your fingers and walking through the day hoping. Riches and wealth comes from well-laid plans. -- Jim Rohn
  • Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give. -- Charles Caleb Colton
  • The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. -- Benjamin Disraeli
  • Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold, So that men ever seek for more, that they may have the most. -- Ovid
  • Riches are a cause of evil, not because, of themselves, they do any evil, but because they goad men on to evil. -- Posidonius
  • Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more. -- Francis Bacon
  • Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion. -- Francis Bacon
  • Riches are oftener an impediment than a stimulus to action; and in many cases they are quite as much a misfortune as a blessing. -- Samuel Smiles
  • Riches should be admitted into our houses, but not into our hearts; we may take them into our possession, but not into our affections. -- Pierre Charron
  • Riches are a blessing or a curse to a man according as he has or has not a heart to make good use of them. -- Matthew Henry
  • Riches, honors and pleasure are the sweets which destroy the mind's appetite for heavenly food; poverty, disgrace and pain are the bitters which restore it. -- George Horne
  • Riches ... don't consist in having things, but in not having to do something you don't want to do. ... Riches is being able to thumb your nose. -- Josephine Tey
  • Riches get their value from the mind of the possessor; they are blessings to those who know how to use them, and curses to those who do not. -- Terence
  • Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will bring you happiness again, as long as you live. -- Anne Frank
  • Riches get their value from the mind of the possessor; they are blessings to those who know how to use them, and curses to those who do not." -- Terence
  • Riches seem to come to the poor in spirit, the poor in interest and joy. To put it straight - the very rich are a poor bunch of bastards -- John Steinbeck
  • Riches, both material and spiritual, can choke you if you do not use them fairly. For not even God can put anything in a heart that is already full. -- Mother Teresa
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  • Riches, in the hands of a man that is wise and generous, are good for something, but in the hands of a sordid, sneaking, covetous miser, they are good for nothing. -- Matthew Henry
  • Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty. -- Doris Day
  • And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. -- Oliver Goldsmith
  • The heart contracts as the pocket expands. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
  • All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea. -- Napoleon Hill
  • Everything, virtue, glory, honor, things human and divine, all are slaves to riches. -- Horace
  • All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money. -- Robert Collier
  • There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men. -- Billy Graham
  • If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to the other world? -- Benjamin Franklin
  • Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves. -- Horace Greeley
  • Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. -- Jonathan Swift
  • If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel. -- Jonathan Swift
  • The great master key to riches is nothing more or less than the self-discipline necessary to help you take full and complete possession of your own mind. -- Napoleon Hill
  • Some of God's noblest sons, I think, will be selected from those that know how to take wealth, with all its temptations, and maintain godliness therewith. It is hard to be a saint standing in a golden niche. -- Henry Ward Beecher
  • Do we, mad as we all are after riches, hear often enough from the pulpit the spirit of those words in which Dean Swift, in his epitaph on the affluent and profligate Colonel Chartres, announces the small esteem of wealth in the eyes of God, from the fact of His thus lavishing it upon the meanest and basest of His creatures? -- Edwin Percy Whipple
  • We do not want riches, we want peace and love. -- Red Cloud
  • For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted. -- Jean Paul
  • Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. -- Plato
  • Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven. -- Confucius
  • All the riches of the world are not of sufficient value to redeem one perishing soul. -- Ellen G. White
  • Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none. -- David Brainerd
  • With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches. -- Adam Smith
  • Kosovo is a small country but it also has a lot of riches that were granted to us by God. -- Ibrahim Rugova
  • If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying. -- Dale Carnegie
  • History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this. -- Karl Marx
  • Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use. -- Gamaliel Bailey
  • To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich. -- Muhammad Ali
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