Riches

Famous quotes containing the word riches:

“The rich are never as possessed by their riches as the poor are by their poverty.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Better to go from poverty to riches than from riches to poverty.”
—Chinese proverb.

“All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.”
—Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618)