Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Blake

The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom... for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough.

Juvenal

An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many.

Democritus

The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.

William Blake

Excess of sorrow laughs, excess of joy weeps.

Benjamin Franklin

Excess in all other Things whatever, as well as in Meat and Drink, is also to be avoided.

Jean Anouilh

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating

Albert Camus

I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.

Thomas Malthus

The immediate cause of the increase of population is the excess of the births above deaths; and the rate of increase, or the period of doubling, depends upon the proportion which the excess of the births above the deaths bears to the population.

Romain Gary

They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior

Brian Aldiss

I have had wealth, rank and power, but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be.

Aristophanes

Wealth--the most excellent of all gods.

Dave Ramsey

More wealth doesn't fix your life. More wealth makes you more of what you already are.

Alfred Marshall

Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.

Simone Weil

God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.

St. Jerome

Shun, as you would the plague, a cleric who from being poor has become wealthy, or who, from being nobody has become a celebrity.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Rich relationships lead to much more than money. They lead to success, fulfillment, and wealth.

Herbert Hoover

Prosperity is just around the corner.

Jane Mayer

The concern that I have is that, as wealth continues to concentrate in the hands of a few, economic inequality grows, and power also becomes more unequal.