Francis Quarles Quotes

All that glitters is not gold.

All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.

What is wealth? A dream of fools.

Who values gold above all, considers all else as trifling.

They dont understand what real treasure is. They see it in gold and copper, and tin. They see in herds of horses or cattle. They gather treasures to themselves, building great storehouses, which they guard ferociously. Then they die. What good is it then?

Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.

It is no wrong or injustice that one has many bags of the finest myrrh and garments embroidered with gold, while another has not those things, which are not necessary for our maintenance; he who has them has not thereby obtained control over anything that could be an essential addition to his nature, but has only obtained something illusory or deceptive. ...This is the rule at all times and in all places; no notice should be taken of exceptional cases, as we have explained.

Riches should be admitted into our houses, but not into our hearts; we may take them into our possession, but not into our affections.

Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate! Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures, He lays for us the pillows straight.

All that glitters is sold as gold.

Riches do not make one rich but busy.

The great danger of riches is that our affections will be carried away from God to His gifts.

Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold!

All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told.

Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless, avarice is never satisfied.

Antichrist is Mammon's son.

Modern society, which, soon after its birth, pulled Plutus by the hair of his head from the bowels of the earth, greets gold as its Holy Grail, as the glittering incarnation of the very principle of its own life.

Money is the wise man's religion.

Those that say they despise riches are saints or liars.

The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer; but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.

But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.

We humans are more concerned with having than with being.