Maxioms Pet

X
  •   16  /  18  

    But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security
    for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.
    - Ik Marvel (pseudonym of Donald G. Mitchell),

    by Found in Wealth Quotes,
Share to:

You May Also Like   /   View all maxioms

  ( comments )
  13  /  19  

Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less read more

Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Wealth Quotes,
Share to:
  ( comments )
  9  /  24  

No, he was no such charlatan--
Count de Hoboken Flash-in-the-Pan--
Full of gasconade and bravado,
read more

No, he was no such charlatan--
Count de Hoboken Flash-in-the-Pan--
Full of gasconade and bravado,
But a regular, rich Don Rataplane,
Santa Claus de la Muscavado,
Senor Grandissimo Bastinado!
His was the rental of half Havana
And all Matanzas; and Santa Ana,
Rich as he was, could hardly hold
A candle to light the mines of gold
Our Cuban owned.

by Edmund C. Stedman Found in: Wealth Quotes,
Share to:
  ( comments )
  7  /  13  

Base wealth preferring to eternal praise.

Base wealth preferring to eternal praise.

  ( comments )
  8  /  11  

A learned man has always wealth in himself.

A learned man has always wealth in himself.

by Latin Proverb Found in: Wealth Quotes,
Share to:
  ( comments )
  10  /  18  

Dame Nature gave him comeliness and health,
And Fortune (for a passport) gave him wealth.

Dame Nature gave him comeliness and health,
And Fortune (for a passport) gave him wealth.

by Walter Harte Found in: Wealth Quotes,
Share to:
  ( comments )
  5  /  12  

O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.

O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.

  ( comments )
  23  /  44  

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of read more

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

by Andrew Carnegie Found in: Wealth Quotes,
Share to:
  ( comments )
  29  /  22  

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

by Benjamin Franklin Found in: Wealth Quotes,
Share to:
  ( comments )
  25  /  21  

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

by Winston Churchill Found in: Wealth Quotes,
Share to:
Maxioms Web Pet