Anne Bradstreet Quotes

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

The wealth of mankind is the wisdom they leave.

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

I have enough money for the rest of my life and enough to leave a good inheritance for our kids.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

At the end of my life, is it better to say that I empowered people to make great stuff, or that I died with a net worth of $10 billion? Obviously I'm picking the former, although I would not mind both.

The fool inherits, but the wise must get.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

Education is more valuable than money. Money can be taken away from you. Education cannot be.

Money can be taken away from you, by the IRS or by pistol. That's why I always measure riches in terms of wisdom. No one can ever take from you what you know.

For me, 'rich' isn't having lots of money; rich is having loads of things in your head.

By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.

A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.

Wealth is not wisdom's goal, but is often wisdom's reward.

Knowledge is the only thing I take with me when I go.

Wisdom is better than silver and gold

Money comes, money goes. But your story stays with you the rest of your life.

Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.

Wise is what you want to be. Smart is easy compared to wise.

Everybody is afraid they won't have any money after they die, but Jack Benny discovered a way to take it with him. He had his appendix taken out and a piggy bank put in.

Thou art an heyre to fayre lying, that is nothing, if thou be disinherited of learning, for better were it to thee to inherite righteousnesse then riches, and far more seemly were if for thee to haue thy Studie full of bookes, then thy pursse full of mony.

Books are yours, Within whose silent chambers treasure lies Preserved from age to age; more precious far Than that accumulated store of gold And orient gems, which, for a day of need, The Sultan hides deep in ancestral tombs. These hoards of truth you can unlock at will.

Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.