riches quotes

When I was an orphan, I was the richest kid at the orphanage because everyone else was complaining about not having anything. But when I discovered that you could get two cents for a Coca-Cola bottle, I would follow people around who were drinking it and ask them if they were almost through with it.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Riches don’t make a man rich, they only make him busier.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.