Horace Quotes

The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.

There's no future in being poor.

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

I am fairly rich. Money's very handy, let's face it.

Though I knew that poverty certainly didn't buy happiness, I wasn't convinced that money did, either.

I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor.

To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.

What is poor? We had food. We dressed well. We didn't have a lot, but what we had fit, and it was always neat.

I didn't know I was poor, growing up, because everyone was in the same boat. I couldn't have bikes. It never really bothered me, but I could have any book. I loved school; I loved learning. Yeah, I never cared for possessions. I still don't, really.

I think in the last thirty years, the rich have gotten richer and the poor have gotten poorer. It is not something that you can see with rose-colored glasses.

Money is not the ultimate point, but it remains the actual measure of success.

You are only as rich as where you come from, and Nigeria has a lot of poverty.

Wealth brings a heavy purse; poverty, a light spirit.

The poor have little; beggars, none; the rich, too much; enough, not one.

The poor are only they who feel poor.

He is not poor who has a competency.

Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.

Money is not everything. Make sure you earn a lot before speaking such nonsense.

We're working-class people, which means we don't get rich or have maids. Be content with what you are and what you have.

All this [wealth] excludes but one evil, poverty.

I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation.

He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends.

Poverty consist in feeling poor.