Matthew Henry Quotes

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

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

In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.

Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor - as long as you've got money.

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

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.

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

And plenty makes us poor.

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken stronger hold on the affections of men, and where the profounder contempt is expressed for the theory of the permanent equality of property.

As income inequality increases, social mobility falls.

How many BMWs do you need? How many Rolex watches you gonna wear in your lifetime, for crying out loud? What is it about that kind of desire? I don't understand it.

Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.

Poor people have the blues because they're poor and hungry. Rich people can't sleep at night because they're trying to hold on to their money and everything they have.

Avarice is always poor.

An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many.

Poverty hath slain a thousand, but riches have slain ten thousand. They are very uncertain, they promise that which they cannot perform, neither can they afford a contented mind.

How can I be secure? Through amassing wealth beyond all measure? No. And what's beyond measure? That's a sickness. That's a trap. There is no measure. Only greed.