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.
De Bono Edward 1933-
The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who
organize gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived
from the efficient use of chance.
Diane Comtesse (Marie de Beausacq)
Wealth makes everything easy - honesty most of all.
Galbraith J.k. 1908-
The Affluent Society
The greater the wealth, the thicker will be the dirt.
Getty Paul 1892-1976
I have complex about wealth. I have worked hard for my money, producing things
people need. I believe that the able industrial leader who creates wealth and
employment is more worthy of historical notice than politicians or soldiers.
Goldsmith Oliver 1730-1774
The Deserted Village
Ill fares the land, to hast' ning ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay;
Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade;
A breath can make them, as a breath has made;
But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,
When once destrouyed, can never be supplied.
Jonson Ben c.1573-1637
Volpone
I glory
More in the cunning purchase of my wealth
Than in the glad possession.
Keynes John Maynard 1883-1946
General Theory
If the Treasury were to fill old bottles with banknotes, bury them at suitable depths in disused coalmines which are then filled up to the surface with town rubbish, and leave it to private enterprise on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again (the right to do so being obtained, of course, by tendering for leases of the
note-bearing territory) there need be no more unemployment and, with the help of the repercussions, the real income of the community, and its capital wealth also, would probably become a good deal greater than it
actually is.
Manners Lord John 1818-1906
England's Trust
Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die,
But leave us still our old nobility!
Marlowe Christopher 1564-1593
The Jew of Malta
Thus methinks should men of judgement frame
Their means of traffic from the vulgar trade,
And, as their wealth increaseth, so enclose
Infinite riches in a little room.
Pope Alexander 1688-1744
Imitations of Horace
Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace;
If not, by any means get wealth and place.
Rockefeller 2nd John D. 1874-1960
I was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there, like air or food, or any other element. The only question with wealth is what you do with it.
Ruskin John 1819-1900
Unto this Last
There is no wealth but life.
Shaw George Bernard 1856-1950
Candida
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing
it than to consume wealth without producing it.
Shelley Percy Bysshe 1792-1822
Declaration of Rights
Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glory a bubble, and
excessive wealth a libel on its possessor.
Shelley Percy Bysshe 1792-1822
‚Song to the Men of England'
The seed ye sow, another reaps;
The wealth ye find, another keeps;
The robes ye weave, another wears;
The arms ye forge, another bears.
Stevenson Robert Louis 1850-1894
Songs of Travel ‘The Vagabond'
Wealth I seek not, hope nor love,
Nor a friend to know me;
All I seek, the heaven above
And the road below me.
Thoreau Henry David 1817-1862
Colour, which is the poet's wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.
Trollope Anthony 1815-1882
Doctor Thorne
There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.
Veblen Thorsten 1857-1929
In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come
up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, convetional standard of wealth.
Winchilsea Lady Anne Finch 1661-1720
„Enquiry after Peace"
Thirst of wealth no quiet knows,
But near the deathbed fiercer grows.