#riches

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#had #heaven #looked #riches #scoundrel

Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling. ↗

— Henry Taube

#ennobling #enriches #exercise #intellectual #itself

I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me. ↗

— Sara Teasdale

#i #me #riches #these #thoughts

Riches get their value from the mind of the possessor; they are blessings to those who know how to use them, and curses to those who do not. ↗

— Terence

#curses #get #how #know #mind

People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.' We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#does #health #health insurance #industrial #industrialized

Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun. ↗

— Robert Burton

#devil #farthest #feed #fullest #general

There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity. ↗

— Claud-Adrian Helvetius

#disposition #esteem #general #glory #happy

A strong man does not succumb to pressures, he knows that without pressures he will not find pleasures and so he will not be made. ↗

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#book-reading #gifts #greatnesstness #jaachynma #nobility

The pauper is vulnerable to pride and pride is the destroyer of man's glory. ↗

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#barack-obama #be-different #book-reading #chiyson #good-life

He wondered what percentage of the world's art was actually kept in bank vaults and the like. Like unread books and unplayed music, did it matter that art went unseen? ↗

— Ian Rankin

#hidden-riches #art