Sayings about Riches
Giving gifts to the rich is like pouring water into the sea. ~ Russian Proverb
If you borrow some chaff from the rich man you have to repay him with wheat. ~ Finnish Proverb
The villain that becomes rich knows neither friends nor family. ~ French Proverb
All water flows into the ocean or into the purse of the rich. ~ Danish Proverb
There’s one law for the rich, and another for the poor. ~ Traditional Proverb
Always be patient with the rich and powerful. ~ Spanish Proverb
The devil gives even rich men presents. ~ Romanian Proverb
He who has a lot of money and no children is not rich; he who has many children and no money is not a pauper. ~ Chinese Proverb
Riches serve a wise man but command a fool. ~ English Proverb
Rich people never know who their friends are. ~ French Proverb
Economy is the wealth of the poor and the wisdom of the rich. ~ French Proverb
If you cannot become rich, be the neighbor of a rich man. ~ Armenian Proverb
The rich never have to seek out their relatives. ~ Italian Proverb
There is no pride like that of a beggar grown rich. ~ French Proverb
One cannot count on riches. ~ Somali Proverb
One cannot both feast and become rich. ~ Ghanaian Proverb
A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel. ~ Spanish Proverb
He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years. ~ Chinese Proverb
Pity the stranger, even if he is rich. ~ Yemeni Proverb
Rich is he who has no debts, fortunate he who lives without handicap. ~ Mongolian Proverb
No one is so rich that he can do without a good neighbor. ~ Danish Proverb
He who wants to bring home the riches of India, he must have them within himself. ~ Spanish Proverb
All riches come from the earth. ~ Armenian Proverb
If a man from humble beginnings gets rich, he will carry his umbrella at midnight. ~ Indian Proverb
The beauty of a woman does not make a man richer. ~ French Proverb
Having a good discussion is like having riches. ~ Kenyan Proverb
The rich man has more relations than he knows about. ~ French Proverb
The rich have many friends. ~ Dutch Proverb
Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich. ~ Traditional Proverb
What makes you happy, makes you rich. ~ Russian Proverb
If you give a gift to a rich man, the devil sniggers. ~ French Proverb
The rich become deaf and the mighty blind. ~ Vietnamese Proverb
If you get rich, be in a dark corner when you jump for joy. ~ African Proverb
A rich man has no need of character. ~ Hebrew Proverb
If you would be rich in a year, you may be hanged in six months. ~ Italian Proverb
When the Turk becomes richer he takes another wife. ~ Bulgarian Proverb
He who eats and drinks with the rich leaves the table hungry. ~ Greek Proverb
Men will love each other as long as one is richer than the other. ~ Ugandan Proverb
Brothers love each other when they are equally rich. ~ African Proverb
Never judge a reindeer from close by when you got it from a rich man because you may find that some of the antlers are missing. ~ Finnish Proverb
The emperor is rich, but he cannot buy one extra year. ~ Chinese Proverb
The only thing that was missing at the rich man’s funeral was mourners. ~ Chinese Proverb
It is better to be born lucky than rich. ~ Traditional Proverb
Rich gamblers and old trumpeters are rare. ~ German Proverb
Fools live poor to die rich. ~ Traditional Proverb
Honesty makes you rich, but she works slowly. ~ German Proverb
As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich. ~ Traditional Proverb
Get what you can and keep what you have; that’s the way to get rich. ~ Scottish Proverb
You only lend to rich people. ~ French Proverb
Riches: a dream in the night; fame: a gull floating on water. ~ Chinese Proverb
There is nothing better than a rich wife and a generous mother-in-law. ~ Russian Proverb
When you are rich you suffer in a more comfortable way. ~ French Proverb
There is no one who became rich because he broke a holiday, and no one who became fat because he broke a fast. ~ Ethiopian Proverb
If there is a rich man in the area three villages are ruined. ~ Korean Proverb
Though the emperor be rich, he cannot buy one extra year. ~ Chinese Proverb
A man can’t get rich if he takes proper care of his family. ~ Navajo Proverb
Riches have wings. ~ Traditional Proverb
Deceive the rich and powerful, if you will, but don’t insult them. ~ Japanese Proverb
Never wrestle with a strong man nor bring a rich man to court. ~ Latvian Proverb
For rich and poor alike the womb is equally warm. ~ German Proverb
To the patient man will come all the riches of the world. ~ Liberian Proverb
People lend only to the rich. ~ Traditional Proverb
Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man’s joke is always funny. ~ Hebrew Proverb
A rich child often sits in a poor mother’s lap. ~ Danish Proverb
He who has nothing to lose is rich. ~ Chinese Proverb
The beggar is not afraid of the drawbacks of being rich. ~ Sanskrit Proverb
Knowledge is better than riches. ~ Cameroonian Proverb
No one is either rich or poor who has not helped himself to be so. ~ German Proverb
He is rich who owes nothing. ~ Hungarian Proverb
He that is afraid of the devil does not grow rich. ~ Italian Proverb
A rich widow weeps in one eye and laughs with the other. ~ Portuguese Proverbs
The rich man never dances badly. ~ Rwandan Proverb
Happy is the man without sickness. Rich is the man with no debts. ~ Chinese Proverb
The beggar that begs near another beggar will never be rich. ~ Creole Proverb (Southern U.S.)
If a woman gets rich she changes into a man. ~ Ghanaian Proverb
He who enjoys good health is rich, though he knows it not. ~ Italian Proverbs
He who would be rich should not collect money, but reduce his needs. ~ Spanish Proverb
If you must be a servant, serve the rich; if you must be a dog, let it be a temple dog. ~ Laotian Proverb
Physicians’ faults are covered with earth, and rich men’s with money. ~ Traditional Proverb
He is rich who knows when he has enough. ~ Japanese Proverb
The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones. ~ Spanish Proverbs
Adversity makes a man wise, not rich. ~ Romanian Proverb
Poor or rich, death makes us all equal. ~ German Proverb
When a man is not a lover in his twenties, not strong in his thirties, not rich in his forties and not wise in his fifties he will never be so. ~ Czech Proverb
A rich man’s wooing need seldom be a long one. ~ Scottish Proverbs
If you turn into a dog, be sure to choose a rich family. ~ Japanese Proverb
Riches add to the house, virtues to the man. ~ Chinese Proverb
Rich people eat gold and shit lead. ~ French Proverb
After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer. ~ American Proverbs
The court is most merciful when the accused is most rich. ~ Hebrew Proverb
None is so rich as that he can throw away a friend. ~ Turkish Proverbs
Misfortune sits on a rich man’s lap but grabs the throat of the pauper. ~ Danish Proverbs
The rich man may wear old clothes. ~ Ghanaian Proverb
Work makes you into a hunchback and then rich. ~ Russian Proverb
When a Bulgar gets rich he builds himself another house. ~ Bulgarian Proverbs
An old man telling lies is like a rich man stealing. ~ Russian Proverbs
Quotations about Riches
Think and grow rich. ~ Napoleon Hill
We may lack riches, but the greatest fortune is what lies in our hearts. ~ Dean Koontz
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. ~ Saint Aurelius Augustine
The way to cure hatred of the rich is to accumulate some property yourself. ~ Lewis F. Korns
Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion. ~ Benjamin Franklin
Wisdom ruleth in counsel — so do riches. ~ Lancelot Andrewes
Those who spend too fast never grow rich. ~ Honore De Balzac
Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss. ~ Dick Gregory
A rich woman seems to have all her banknotes about her, guarding her virtue, like a cuirass, in the lining of her corset. ~ Gustave Flaubert
He who knows he has enough is rich. ~ Lao-Tzu
It is better to live rich, than to die rich. ~ Samuel Johnson
As the cream abandons the milk from which it took its life, and rises to the top and rides there, so men, because they are richer than those around about them, separate themselves, and all mankind below them they regard as skim milk. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
Fashion and riches will mask much annoyance… ~ Christopher Pearse Cranch
Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don’t believe in riches, but you should see where I live. ~ Bond
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. ~ John S. Bonnell
Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws. ~ Cervantes
Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
The man who dies rich… dies disgraced. ~ Andrew Carnegie
That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci
Riches are but a means, or instrument; and the virtue of an instrument lies in its use. ~ Benjamin Whichcote
He who is contented is rich. ~ Lao-Tzu
There is a very easy way to return from a casino with a small fortune: go there with a large one. ~ Jack Yelton
The fame of the rich man dies with him; the fame of the treasure, and not of the man who possessed it, remains. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci
Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress. ~ Francis Bacon
Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is. ~ Jean Anouilh
It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money. It is clear, they have not value for what they spend. ~ Samuel Johnson
It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people. ~ Logan Pearsall Smith
Among the very rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
The jests of the rich are ever successful. ~ Oliver Goldsmith
He hath riches sufficient who hath enough to be charitable. ~ Sir Thomas Browne
The rich man’s happiness is but from the teeth outwards, a counterfeit satisfaction, with a worm in his heart. ~ Wellins Calcott
We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism. ~ Calvin Coolidge
Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men. ~ Billy Graham
To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount, that man isn’t rich. ~ Mark Twain
Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart. ~ Joseph Addison
Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them. ~ Jean De La Bruyere
The most wanton torture is that of the rich trying to kill time. ~ Lewis F. Korns
Titles, riches, and fine houses signify no more to the making of one man better than another, than the finer saddle to the making the better horse. ~ Wellins Calcott
Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance. ~ Joseph Addison
Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable. ~ Cervantes
We may see the small value God has for riches by the people he gives them to. ~ Alexander Pope
Men leave their riches either to their kindred or their friends, and moderate portions prosper best in both. ~ Francis Bacon
Riches enlarge rather than satisfy appetites. ~ Thomas Fuller
A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles. ~ Sir Richard Burton
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. ~ William Scott Downey
If your riches are yours, why don’t you take them with to the other world? ~ Benjamin Franklin
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work. ~ Robert Orben
It’s better to have a rich soul than to be rich. ~ Olga Korbut
The desire for riches is more sharpened by their use than by their need. Pleasing all: a mark that can never be aimed at or hit. ~ Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
Know from the bounteous heavens all riches flow; and what man gives, the gods by man bestow. ~ Homer
So our Lord God commonly gives riches to those gross asses to whom He vouchsafes nothing else. ~ Martin Luther
Those that say they despise riches are saints or liars. ~ Austin O’Malley
Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by other men. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
Riches are chiefly good because they give us time. ~ Charles Lamb
There are people who have money and people who are rich. ~ Coco Chanel
He who multiplies riches, multiplies cares. ~ Benjamin Franklin
In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face. ~ Diogenes of Sinope
Rich isn’t an amount of money, it’s a mindset about how you live. If you believe you can win, you can. ~ Dave Ramsey
Any man can become rich who is base enough to keep a brothel, a gin palace, or a gambling house. ~ Charles William Day
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. ~ Oscar Wilde
To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober. ~ Logan Pearsall Smith
Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction. ~ F.Scott Fitzgerald
I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them. ~ Eleanora Duse