John Dryden Quotes

There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance.

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

The more we have the less we own.

In the affluent society no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessaries.

With much we surfeit; plenty makes us poor.

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.

He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.

It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess.

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

Work hard, earn a great living, get whatever you want out of life, have all the stuff you want. But there should be a ceiling on it-enough is enough!

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

Poverty is born of super-abundance itself.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become.

A small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet.

I already own more than any human being needs.

I always want more. I will always want to earn more.