Riches have wings. [ Proverb ]

Riches bring cares. [ Proverb ]

Riches rule the roast. [ Proverb ]

Health is great riches. [ Proverb ]

Content is better than riches. [ Proverb ]

Riches allow one to be foolish. [ Horace ]

Children are poor men's riches. [ Proverb ]

Riches alone make no men happy. [ Proverb ]

Infinite riches in a little room. [ Marlowe ]

Gold and diamonds are not riches. [ John Ruskin ]

Riches breed care, poverty is safe. [ Danish Proverb ]

A great fortune is a great slavery. [ Seneca ]

Riches, rightly used, breed delight. [ Plautus ]

The ungovernable passion for wealth. [ Ovid ]

Riches seldom make their owners rich. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Riches are but the baggage of fortune. [ Proverb ]

No good man ever became suddenly rich. [ Syrus ]

Lack of desire is the greatest riches. [ Seneca ]

Riches profit not in the day of wrath. [ Bible ]

Riches are often abused, never refused. [ Danish Proverb ]

Gentility is nothing but ancient riches. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Wisdom is more to be envied than riches. [ Proverb ]

Commonsense among men of fortune is rare. [ Juvenal ]

I have mental joys and mental health.
Mental friends and mental wealth,
I've a wife that I love and that loves me;
I've all but riches bodily. [ Wm. Blake ]

Not possession but use is the only riches. [ Proverb ]

Wisdom adorns riches, and shadows poverty. [ Socrates ]

The heart contracts as the pocket expands. [ Bovee ]

The ransom of a man's life are his riches. [ Bible ]

If all were rich, gold would be penniless. [ Bailey ]

Wooing thee,
I found thee of more value
Than stamps in gold or sums in sealed bags;
And it is the very riches of thyself
That now I aim at. [ William Shakespeare ]

A learned man has always riches in himself. [ Phaedr ]

It is better to live rich than to die rich. [ Johnson ]

Riches and favour go before wisdom and art. [ Danish Proverb ]

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 ]

Riches like insects when concealed they lie,
Wait but for wings, and in their season fly. [ Pope ]

Let none admire
That riches grow in hell; that soil may best
Deserve the precious bane. [ Milton ]

To be thought rich is as good as to be rich. [ Thackeray ]

Thirst of power and of riches now bear sway,
The passion and infirmity of age. [ Frowde ]

Riches either serve or govern the possessor. [ Horace ]

Riches serve a wise man, but command a fool. [ Proverb ]

These riches are possessed, but not enjoyed. [ Homer ]

Riches rather enlarge than satisfy appetites. [ Proverb ]

Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance. [ Addison ]

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage. [ Seneca ]

Gold is the strength, the sinews of the world;
The health, the soul, the beauty most divine;
A mask of gold hides all deformities;
Gold is heaven's physic, life's restorative. [ Decker ]

Since all the riches of this world
May be gifts from the devil and earthly kings.
I should suspect that I worshipped the devil
If I thanked my God for worldly things. [ Wm. Blake ]

Riches abuse them who know not how to use them. [ Proverb ]

Not a man, for being simply man,
Hath any honour, but honour for those honours
That are without him, as place, riches, favour,
Prizes of accident, as oft as merit. [ William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida ]

Riches are well, if gotten well and spent well. [ Vespasian ]

Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws. [ Cervantes ]

Riches may at any time be left, but not poverty. [ Proverb ]

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 ]

A lord without riches is a soldier without arms. [ Proverb ]

Know from the bounteous heavens all riches flow;
And what man gives, the gods by man bestow. [ Homer ]

Great riches are of no real and substantial use. [ Proverb ]

Riches are coveted to minister to our pleasures.

Heaven, the perfection of all that can
Be said, of thought, riches, delight or harmony.
Health, beauty; and all those not subject to
The waste of time, but in their height eternal. [ Shirley ]

Therefore, if at great things thou wouldst arrive,
Get riches first, get wealth. [ Milton ]

The care of a large estate is an unpleasant thing. [ Juvenal ]

He is not fit for riches who is afraid to use them. [ Proverb ]

Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches! [ Emerson ]

Riches well got and well used are a great blessing. [ Proverb ]

The abuse of riches is worse than the want of them. [ Proverb ]

The more riches a fool hath, the greater fool he is. [ Proverb ]

Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains. [ Ruffini ]

Riches, understanding, beauty, are fair gifts of God. [ Luther ]

A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches. [ Bible ]

The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality. [ Cicero ]

The first approach to riches is security from poverty. [ Johnson ]

A man's true wealth is the good he does in this world. [ Mohammed ]

He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. [ Bible ]

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. [ Franklin ]

Satiety comes of riches and contumaciousness of satiety. [ Solon ]

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason. [ Fielding ]

A pilot is not chosen for his riches, but his knowledge. [ Proverb ]

If a man wishes to become rich he must appear to be rich. [ Goldsmith ]

Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Riches exclude only one inconvenience - that is, poverty. [ Dr. Johnson ]

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. [ Thoreau ]

Virtue is of noble birth; but riches take the wall of her. [ Proverb ]

Poverty is the greatest calamity, riches the highest good. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The rich fool is like a pig that is choked by its own fat. [ Confucius ]

He hath riches sufficient who hath enough to be charitable. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]

Riches come better after poverty than poverty after riches. [ Chinese Proverb ]

He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. [ Bible ]

Few and precious are the words which the lips of Wisdom utter,
To what shall their rarity be likened?
What price shall count their worth?
Perfect and much to be desired, and giving joy with riches,
No lovely thing on earth can picture all their beauty. [ Tupper ]

Riches are as a stronghold in the imagination of the rich man. [ Solomon ]

Riches are got with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. [ Proverb ]

Riches for the most part are hurtful to them that possess them. [ Plutarch ]

Riches take peace from the soul, but rarely, if ever, confer it. [ Petrarch ]

By humility and the fear of the Lord are riches, honor, and life. [ Bible ]

It is the riches of the mind only that make a man rich and happy. [ Proverb ]

Riches are for spending, and spending for honour and good actions. [ Bacon ]

Riches are got wi' pain, kept wi' care, and tint (lost) wi' grief. [ Scotch Proverb ]

By wisdom wealth is wen; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none. [ Bayard Taylor ]

Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

The rich and poor meet together: the Lord is the maker of them all. [ Bible ]

Few men are both rich and generous; fewer are both rich and humble. [ Cardinal Manning ]

In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition. [ Joubert ]

It is more pitiable once to have been rich than not to be rich now. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

Riches, perhaps, do not so often produce crimes as incite accusers. [ Johnson ]

Money must be sought for in the first instance; virtue after riches. [ Horace ]

The smallness of our desires may contribute reasonably to our wealth. [ Cobbett ]

Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. [ William Shakespeare ]

Frugality is founded upon the principle, that all riches have limits. [ Burke ]

To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power. [ George MacDonald ]

The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them. [ Tillotson ]

Moderate riches will carry you, if you have more, you must carry them. [ Proverb ]

Riches have made mair men covetous than covetousness has made men rich. [ Scotch Proverb ]

How many threadbare souls are to be found under silken cloaks and gowns! [ Thomas Brooks ]

Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart. [ Addison ]

Riches have made more covetous men, than covetousness hath made rich men. [ Proverb ]

The writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander. [ Landor ]

Increasing wealth is attended by care and by the desire of greater increase. [ Horace ]

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin. [ Erasmus ]

Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable. [ Cervantes ]

The whole world is put in motion by the wish for riches and the dread of poverty. [ Dr. Johnson ]

His best companions innocence and health, and his best riches ignorance of wealth. [ Goldsmith ]

Sleep, riches, and health are only truly enjoyed after they have been interrupted. [ Richter ]

In this world, it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. [ Beecher ]

Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave. [ Dryden ]

The good are joyful in the midst of poverty; but the wicked are sad in great riches. [ Proverb ]

Everything, virtue, glory, honor, things human and divine, all are slaves to riches. [ Horace ]

The profession of riches without their possession leads to the worst form of poverty. [ Spurgeon ]

Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed. [ Horace ]

The change of seasons pleaseth nature, and the mutability of riches delighteth fortune. [ Boetius ]

Excellence and greatness of soul are most conspicuously displayed in contempt of riches.

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 ]

Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit. [ Johnson ]

However rich or elevated, a nameless something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune. [ Horace ]

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. [ Swift ]

Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away, but love stays with us. Love is God. [ Lew Wallace ]

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only certainty is oblivion. [ Horace Greeley ]

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss. [ Gregory ]

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. [ Sterne ]

Riches are of no value in themselves; their use is discovered only in that which they procure. [ Dr. Johnson ]

A man that keeps riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles. [ Proverb ]

Of great riches there is no real use, except it be in the distribution; the rest is but conceit. [ Bacon ]

He that keeps up his riches and lives poorly, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles. [ Proverb ]

For everything divine and human, virtue, fame and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches. [ Horace ]

He is rich whose income is more than his expenses; and he is poor whose expenses exceed his income. [ Bruyere ]

Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves. [ Horace Greeley ]

Riches amassed in haste will diminish; but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Wealth cannot purchase any great private solace or convenience. Riches are only the means of sociality. [ Henry D. Thoreau ]

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants. [ Cobbett ]

Riches do not consist in having more gold and silver, but in having more in proportion than our neighbours. [ Locke ]

The god of this world is riches, pleasure and pride, wherewith it abuses all the creatures and gifts of God. [ Luther ]

Men leave their riches either to their kindred or their friends, and moderate portions prosper best in both. [ Bacon ]

A taste for books is the pleasure and glory of my life; I would not exchange it for the riches of the Indies. [ E. Gibbon ]

There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches. [ Bible ]

Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others. [ Fielding ]

He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want. [ Bible ]

Good qualities are the substantial riches of the mind, but it is good-breeding that sets them off to advantage. [ Locke ]

One cause of the insufficiency of riches (to produce happiness) is, that they very seldom make their owner rich. [ Johnson ]

As riches and favor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity. [ La Bruyere ]

Labor not to be rich; * * * for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven. [ Bible ]

We see how much a man has, and therefore we envy him; did we see how little he enjoys, we should rather pity him. [ Seed ]

Riches are like bad servants, whose shoes are made of running leather, and will never tarry long with one master. [ Brooks ]

May I deem the wise man rich, and may I have such a portion of gold as none but a prudent man can either bear or employ. [ Plato ]

It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them. [ Izaak Walton ]

Of all the riches that we hug, of all the pleasures we enjoy, we can carry no more out of this world than out of a dream. [ Bonnell ]

O, my God! withhold from me the wealth to which tears and sighs and curses cleave. Better none at all than wealth like that. [ Christian Scriver ]

But Christian faith knows that wealth means responsibility, and that responsibility may come to mean only heavy arrears of sin. [ H. P. Liddon ]

There is one way whereby we may secure our riches, and make sure friends to ourselves of them, - by laying them out in charity. [ Tillotson ]

The use we make of our fortune determines its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely, and too much if expended foolishly. [ Bovee ]

No man can make haste to be rich without going against the will of God, in which case it is the one frightful thing to be successful. [ George MacDonald ]

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. [ Bailey ]

Riches should be admitted into our houses, but not into our hearts; we may take them into our possession, but toot into our affections. [ Charron ]

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. [ Feltham ]

If we are rich with the riches which we neither give nor enjoy, we are rich with the riches which are buried in the caverns of the earth. [ Veeshnoo Sarma ]

Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and the homage. [ Johnson ]

He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he be exalted above his neighbors because he hath more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine! [ Jeremy Taylor ]

If thou art rich, thou art poor; for, like an ass whose back with ingots bows, thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey, and death unloads thee. [ William Shakespeare ]

The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least - the privilege of making them happy. [ Colton ]

That plenty should produce either Covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of providence; and yet the generality of men are the worse for their riches. [ William Penn ]

In getting of your riches, and in using of them, you should always have three things in your heart, that is to say, our Lord God, Conscience, and good Name. [ Geoffrey Chaucer ]

Worldly wealth is the devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches, recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase. [ Burton ]

Of all pure things, purity in the acquisition of riches is the best. He who preserves purity in becoming rich is really pure, not he who is purified by water. [ Manu ]

Whosoever commands the sea, commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world, commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]

Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. The cares of riches lie heavier upon a good man than the inconveniences of an honest poverty. [ L'Estrange ]

The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their grave only the bruises and marks of their toil. [ St. Augustine ]

We see but the outside of a rich man's happiness; few consider him to be like the silkworm, that, when she seems to play, is at the very same time consuming herself. [ Izaak Walton ]

Seek not proud riches, but such as thou may'st get justly use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly; yet have no abstract nor friarly contempt of them. [ Bacon ]

The ways to enrich are many, and rfiost of thom foul. Parsimony is one of the best, and yet is not innocent; for it withholdeth men from works of liberality and charity. [ Bacon ]

Talents give a man a superiority far more agreeable than that which proceeds from riches, birth, or employments, which are all external. Talents constitute our very essence. [ Rollin ]

The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice. The rich are always advising the poor; but the poor seldom venture to return the compliment. [ Sir Arthur Helps ]

No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. [ Beecher ]

Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty. [ H. W. Beecher ]

Leisure and solitude are the best effect of riches, because mother of thought. Both are avoided by most rich men, who seek company and business, which are signs of being weary of themselves. [ Sir W. Temple ]

Who confers reputation? who gives respect and veneration to persons, to books, to great men? Who but Opinion? How utterly insufficient are all the riches of the world without her approbation! [ Pascal ]

There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man - the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired. [ Fielding ]

There is a burden of care in getting riches, fear in keeping them, temptation in using them, guilt in abusing them, sorrow in losing them, and a burden of account at last to be given up concerning them. [ Matthew Henry ]

The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. [ Bible ]

No possession can surpass, or even equal, a good library to the lover of books. Here are treasured up for his daily use and delectation, riches which increase by being consumed, and pleasures which never cloy. [ John Alfred Langford ]

Of riches it is not necessary to write the praise. Let it, however, be remembered that he who has money to spare has it always in his power to benefit others, and of such power a good man must always be desirous. [ Johnson ]

He is the rich man who can avail himself of all men's faculties. He is the richest man who knows how to draw a benefit from the labors of the greatest number of men, - of men ia distant countries and in past times. [ Emerson ]

Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase; as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun. [ Burton ]

I know not whether there exists such a thing as a coin stamped with a pair of pinions; but I wish this were the device which monarchs put upon their dollars and ducats, to show that riches make to themselves wings, and fly away. [ Gotthold ]

Let us not envy some men their accumulated riches; their burden would be too heavy for us; we could not sacrifice, as they do, health, quiet, honor, and conscience, to obtain them: it is to pay so dear for them that the bargain is a loss. [ Bruyere ]

Eyes speak all languages; wait for no letter of introduction; they ask no leave of age or rank; they respect neither poverty nor riches, neither learning, nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

When Anaxagoras was told of the death of his son, he only said, I knew he was mortal. So we in all casualties of life should say I knew my riches were uncertain, that my friend was but a man. Such considerations would soon pacify us, because all our troubles proceed from their being unexpected. [ Plutarch ]

Men pursue riches under the idea that their possession will set them at pace, and above the world. But the law of association often makes those who begin by loving gold as a servant finish by becoming themselves its slaves; and independence without wealth is at least as common as wealth without independence. [ Colton ]

Let the foundation of thy affection be virtue, then make the building as rich and as glorious as thou canst; if the foundation be beauty or wealth, and the building virtue, the foundation is too weak for the building, and it will fall: happy is he, the palace of whose affection is founded upon virtue, walled with riches, glazed with beauty, and roofed with honor. [ Quarles ]

A sense of humor is a saving grace, and happy is that woman who has been blessed by birth with that rare sixth sense of seeing the funny side. If you have it naturally, be gladly grateful, for it is a greater gift than beauty or riches. It means cheerfulness, contentment, courage and, possessing it, you are equipped with a potent weapon against the blows of fate. [ Unknown ]

The man whose bosom neither riches nor luxury nor grandeur can render happy may, with a book in his hand, forget all his torments under the friendly shade of every tree; and experience pleasures as infinite as they are varied, as pure as they are lasting, as lively as they are unfading, and as compatible with every public duty as they are contributory to private happiness. [ Zimmermann ]

Whosoever shall look heedfully upon those who are eminent for their riches will not think their condition such as that he should hazard his quiet, and much less his virtue, to obtain it, for all that great wealth generally gives above a moderate fortune is more room for the freaks of caprice, and more privilege for ignorance and vice, a quicker succession of flatteries, and a larger circle of voluptuousness. [ Johnson ]

Eyes are bold as lions, roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages; they wait for no introduction; they are no Englishmen; ask no leave of age or rank; they respect neither poverty nor riches, neither learning nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude, and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time. What inundation of life and thought is discharged from one soul into another through them! [ Emerson ]