Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

What is wealth? A dream of fools.

Those who own much have much to fear.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

The only thing I like about rich people is their money.

I photograph wealth.

I don't care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

I enjoy my money, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I'd certainly rather be rich than poor.

These are the meats to abstain from- others' wealth, others' wives, slander, envy, covetousness and pride.

When I was growing up, we were in a high income bracket, one of the highest. I was one of the first in high school to get a car. And I didn't have to wait for it to be a graduation present, either. We've probably got one of the nicest houses in Sacramento.

I like nice things. I've always had nice things.

The green tempts me to make the rich the enemy, and take their cheese.

With much we surfeit; plenty makes us poor.

I'm not greedy at all. Sometimes I pinch myself because of what I've got.

Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

People don't want to hear about me having leather walls or gold toilets.

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

Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.

After the first million, money isn't important.

Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that's all I cared about.