#riches

Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches. ↗

— David Hume

#always #commodities #condition #easy #every

All things being equal, why not be married to a rich man? (Somewhere, Hannah thinks, there must be a needlepoint pillow asking this very question in a cleverer way.) ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#marriage #riches #dreams

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#concealed #discover #favor #foolishness #forsake

To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind. ↗

— Fanny Burney

#despise #dispense #indeed #mankind #may

The hand has the richest articulation of space. ↗

— Eduardo Chillida

#hand #richest #space

It's an embarrassment of riches because you have directors who don't better. You end up with so much stuff going on the screen that you don't know where to look, and that's what I consider self-indulgent. ↗

— John Dykstra

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When I was a boxer, I wanted to be champion of the world, not the richest man in the world. ↗

— George Foreman

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Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches. ↗

— John Locke

#most #nothing #ostentation #part #riches

To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power. ↗

— George MacDonald

#power #riches #want #without

What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart? ↗