H. Rider Haggard Quotes

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their grave only the bruises and marks of their toil.

As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you.

I have accumulated no money but I accumulate a lot of happiness. If you get rich, you have an apartment with an extra bedroom - and then you die.

We are born into this world with clenched fists, we leave it with fingers apart- preaching the lesson that you take nothing with you.

I have a suit in my closet with the pocket cut out. It's a reminder to me that I won't be taking anything with me. The last suit I wear won't need any pockets.

We have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either.' There are no U-Hauls behind hearses.

Here you can be a billionaire, like Mark Zuckerberg rich, but you are going to die and you are here for a while and ultimately all of your stuff is kind of like a rental.

At the end of your life, you cannot take a penny with you. So what is the object of money if you can't take it with you?

No matter how big a house you have or how slick a car you drive, the only thing you can take with you at the end of your life is your conscience.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me.

Property is theft. Nobody "owns" anything. When you die, it all stays here.

Money is nothing really worth squabbling about. This is what puts people six feet under. You know, I don't need it.

Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.

Money ain't everything.

What is it worth to possess the riches of the world, when a man comes to face Eternity?

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Money and good life had never been my goal.

The man who dies rich, dies in disgrace.

I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.

If you are money, then, when you die, you will be spent.

I'm single. I don't have a family. I certainly don't have to work. I don't want to be the richest man in the cemetery.

Money is not everything.