The possession of wealth is, as it were, prepayment, and involves an obligation of honor to the doing of correspondent work.
—George MacDonald
Showing posts with label wealth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wealth. Show all posts
Sunday, November 03, 2024
Sunday, July 24, 2022
Sunday, September 26, 2021
Post #3091
Wealth is nothing in itself; it is not useful but when it departs from us.
—Samuel Johnson
Sunday, August 29, 2021
Post #3087
It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness.
—Thomas Jefferson
Sunday, February 07, 2021
Post #3058
I esteem that wealth which is given to the worthy, and which is day by day enjoyed; the rest is a reserve for one knoweth not whom.
—Hitopadesa
Sunday, June 28, 2020
Post #3025
He that will not permit his wealth to do any good to others while he is living, prevents it from doing any good to himself when he is dead ; and by an egotism that is suicidal, and has a double edge, cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here, and the highest happiness hereafter.
—Charles Caleb Colton
Tuesday, February 06, 2018
Post #2507
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.
—Sir Roger L'Estrange
—Sir Roger L'Estrange
Monday, July 03, 2017
Post #2371
He that is well does not know how rich he is.
Better a healthy beggar, than a sick king.
—German Proverb
Better a healthy beggar, than a sick king.
—German Proverb
Friday, May 01, 2015
Thursday, April 30, 2015
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Tuesday, December 09, 2014
Post #1702
You ask credit
I no give
You get mad
I give credit
You no pay
I get mad
Better you get mad.
I no give
You get mad
I give credit
You no pay
I get mad
Better you get mad.
Friday, August 29, 2014
Thursday, May 29, 2014
Post #1559
Wealth is not acquired, as many persons suppose, by fortunate speculatious and splendid enterprises, but by the daily practice of industry, frugality, and economy. He who relies upon these means will rarely be found destitute, and he who relies upon any other will generally become bankrupt.
—Francis Wayland
Friday, February 21, 2014
Post #1485
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 powers a good man must always be desirous.
—Samuel Johnson
—Samuel Johnson
Monday, October 28, 2013
Post #1387
No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes him rich. He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
—Henry Ward Beecher
—Henry Ward Beecher
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Saturday, March 03, 2012
Post #880
The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture.
—Benjamin Franklin
—Benjamin Franklin
Saturday, October 01, 2011
Post #727
A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone.
—Henry David Thoreau
—Henry David Thoreau
Saturday, September 03, 2011
Post #700
Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all others - his last breath.
—Mark Twain
—Mark Twain
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
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