In abundance prepare for scarcity. [ Mencius ]
Abundance changes the value of things. [ Terence ]
Abundance is a blessing to the wise;
The use of riches in discretion lies:
Learn this, ye men of wealth - a heavy purse
In a fool's pocket is a heavy curse. [ Cumberland ]
Abundance without discretion is plain penury. [ Matteo Gribaldi ]
If I have enough for myself and family,
I am steward only for myself; if I have more,
I am but a steward of that abundance for others. [ George Herbert ]
Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws. [ Cervantes ]
Enjoyment germinates not in abundance but in want. [ Herder ]
There is abundance of money spent to be laughed at. [ Proverb ]
Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. [ Bible ]
It is not want, but rather abundance, that makes avarice. [ Proverb ]
Patience is good for abundance of things besides the gout. [ Proverb ]
Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance. [ Goethe ]
In plain truth, it is not want, but rather abundance, that creates avarice. [ Montaigne ]
Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin. [ Erasmus ]
Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit. [ Selden ]
I have written this, not as having abundance of leisure, but out of love for you. [ Cicero ]
Better is little, provided it is your own, than an abundance of borrowed capital. [ Benjamin Franklin ]
God gave him no children, but the devil furnished him with abundance of bastards. [ Proverb ]
High-built abundance, heap on heap! for what? To breed new wants, and beggar us the more,
Then, make a richer scramble for the throng. [ Young ]
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase. [ Bible ]
Poor in abundance, famished at a feast, man's grief is but his grandeur in disguise, and discontent is immortality. [ Young ]
Take heed and beware of covetousness; for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. [ Bible ]
The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already. [ Simms ]
My own firm conviction is that no education can make a writer. The heart must be hot behind the pen. Out of the abundance of life and its manifold experiences comes the power to touch life. [ Amelia E. Barr, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]
The friendship of the world is like the leaves falling from their trees in autumn; while the sap of maintenance lasts, friends swarm in abundance; but in the winter of our need, they leave us naked. He is a happy man that hath a true friend at his need; but he is more truly happy that hath no need of a friend. [ Arthur Warwick ]
There is a story of some mountains of salt in Cumana, which never diminished, though carried away in much abundance by merchants; but when once they were monopolized to the benefit of a private purse, then the salt decreased, till afterward all were allowed to take of it, when it had a new access and increase. The truth of this story may be uncertain, but the application is true; he that envies others the use of his gifts decays then, but he thrives most that is most diffusive. [ Spencer ]
When the desire of wealth is taking hold of the heart, let us look round and see how it operates upon those whose industry or fortune has obtained it. When we find them oppressed with their own abundance, luxurious with out pleasure, idle without ease, impatient and querulous in themselves, and despised or hated by the rest of mankind, we shall soon be convinced that if the real wants of our condition are satisfied, there remains little to be sought with solicitude or desired with eagerness. [ Dr. Johnson ]