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Famous English sayings about wealth

A penny saved is a penny gained.

Richard Brckminster Fuller.American srchitect

A penny saved is a penny gained.

American architect R.B. Fuller

All good things are cheap, all bad things are very dear.

Henry David Thoreau, American writer

All good things are cheap, and all bad things are very expensive.

American writer Thoreau. H.D.

All the splendor in the world is not worth a good friend.

Voltaire, French thinker

All the splendor in the world is not worth a good friend.

French thinker Voltaire

Apply yourself to true riches; it is shameful to depend upon silver and gold for a happy life.

Lrcius Annaeus Seneca, Ancient Roman Philosopher

To strive for true wealth, it is dishonorable to seek happiness in gold and silver.

Ancient Roman philosopher Seneca.L.A.

An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of gold.

Tobias Smollett, British writer

An ounce of caution is worth a pound of gold.

British writer. Smollett T.

Beggars cannot be choosers.

Du Bose Heywood, American writer

Beggars cannot be choosers. Pick and choose.

American writer Heywood D.B.

Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.

Betrand Russell, British philosopher

Beggars do not envy millionaires, although they certainly envy beggars who beg more than they do.

British philosopher Russell B.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin. American president

Money lending ratio Have a good memory for borrowing debt.

American President Franklin. B.

Economy is in itself a source of at revenue.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Ancient Roman Philosopher

Economy itself is the greatest income.

Roman philosopher Seneca, L.A.

Economy is the poor man's mint; and extravagance the rich man's pitfall.

Economy is the poor man's coinage Factory, waste is a trap for the rich.

British writer Tabor.M

Few rich men own their property.The property owns them.

Robert en Ingersoll. American Iawyer

< p>Few rich people own their property, it is their property that owns them.

American lawyer Ingersoll R.G.

He that has a full purse never lacks a friend. Even in a busy market, nobody cares to know a poor person.

Anonymors

The rich live in the mountains and have distant relatives; the poor live in the city and no one knows them.

Anonymous

I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.

Jules Renard, French playwright

I finally know Understand the difference between man and beast: man worries about money.

French playwright Renard J.

I would rather have my people laugh at my economies than weep for my extravagance.

Oscar ll, Swedish king

I would rather have my people laugh at my stinginess than cry for my profligacy.

King Oscar II of Sweden

If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth, but, if poor, it is not so easy to conceal our poverty. We shall find it less difficult to hide a thousand guineas, than one hole in our coat.

Charles C. Colton, British clergyman

If you are rich, it is easy to hide your wealth; if you are poor, it is easy to hide your poverty. Disaster. It is not difficult to find that it is easier to hide 1,000 gold coins than to cover a hole in your clothes.

British makeup artist Colton C.C

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

Benjamin Franklin, American presudent

If you want to know the value of money, try to borrow money.

Benjiamin Franklin, President of the United States'

If your Riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to the other world?

Benjiamin Franklin , American president

If the wealth is yours, why don't you take it with you to the other world?

American President Franklin B.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

Samuel Johnson, British writer

Rather than holding a lot of money when you die, it is better to live a rich and colorful life.

British writer Johnson.S.

It is good to have money to buy things that money can buy ,but it is better not to lose things money cannot buy.

George H. Lorimer, American journalist

It is good to have money to buy what you can get, but it is better not to lose what money cannot buy.

American journalist Lorimer G.H.

Men do not desire merely to be rich, but to be richer than other men.

John Stuart Mill, British economist

People not only want to be rich, but they want to be richer than others.

British economist J.S. Mill

Money is a good servant and a bad master.

Francis Bacon, British Philosopher

Money is a good servant and an evil master.

British philosopher Bacon.F.

Money is a singular thing, It ranks with love as man's atest source of joy. And with death as his atest source of anxiety.

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J.K, Galbraith, American economist

Money is the strangest thing. When it is associated with love, it is the greatest source of human happiness; when it is associated with death, It is the most important cause of human anxiety.

American economist Galbraith J.K.

Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.

Francis Bacon, BAritish phlosopher

Money is like manure, it is only useful if it is spread on the earth.

British philosopher Bacon.F.

Money is not the root of all evils as is usually claimed, what is the root of all evils is the lust for money, that is the excessive, selfish and edy pusuit of mnoey.

Nathaniell Hawthorn, American writer

Money is not the root of all evil as is often said. The greed for money, the excessive, selfish and greedy pursuit of money, is the root of all evil.

American writer Hawthorne.N.

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

George Farquhar, Irish dramatist

Money is the backbone of love as money is the backbone of war.

Irish playwright G. Farquhar

Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace of happiness.

Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian dramatist

Money can be the shell of many things , but not the fruit within. It brings food, but not appetite; it brings medicine, but not health; it brings acquaintance, but not friendship; it brings servants, but not their loyalty; it brings enjoyment, but not Come to blissful tranquility.

Norwegian playwright Ibsen.H

Money will buy a pretty dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.

J, Billings, American humorist

Money can buy a nice dog, but it can't buy a wagging tail.

American writer Billings J.

No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources.

Franklin Roosevelt, American pesident < /p>

No country, no matter how wealthy it is, cannot afford to waste human resources.

President Roosevelt.F.

Poverty is an abnormality to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

Walter Bagehot, Buetish economist

For the rich, poverty is an incomprehensible anomaly: they cannot understand why those who want to eat do not ring a bell to have it delivered. Coming?

British economist Badgett.W.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Albert Einstein, American scientist

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Sometimes one pays the most for what one gets for free.

American scientist Einstein A.

That man is the richest whose pleasure are the cheapest.

Henry David Thoreau, American writer

The richest people are those who can seek happiness everywhere.

American writer Thoreau.H.D

The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweet.

John Gay, British dramatist and plet

< p> The fly that sips the sweet sugar dies in the sweetness.

British playwright and human being Guy J.

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the man who borrows , and the man who lends.

Charles Lamb, British essayist

According to the best theory I can put together, the human race is composed of two distinct races, the borrowers with the lender.

British Lamb, C.

The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing them.

A. R .Ricvarol , French writer

Wealth does only one thing to some people: it makes them fear they will lose it.

French writer Rivarol A.R.

The vices of the rich and at are mistaken for error, and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.

< p>Marrite Blessington, Irish writer

The sins of the rich and great are mistaken for fallacies, and the faults of the poor and mortal are mistaken for crimes.

Irish writer Blessington.M

There are only two families in the world, as a grandmother of mine used to say, the haves and the have-nots.

There are only two families in the world, as a grandmother of mine used to say, the haves and the have-nots.

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Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish novelist

As one of my grandmothers said, there are only two families in the world: the rich and the poor.

Spanish novelist Cervantes M.

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

Gerald Brenan, British writer

People who have a little money think love is the most important thing in the world, while poor people understand that the most important thing in the world is money.

British writer Brennan G.

To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and keep absolute sober.

Logan Pearsall Smith, American weiter

To think that when we become rich we will not behave like rich people is to think that we can drink heavily all day long , but still keep your mind clear.

American writer Smith L.P.

Wealth may be an exscellent thing, for it means power. leisure, and liberty.

James Russell Lowell, British plet and critic

Wealth may be a good thing because it means power, comfort and freedom.

British critic Lowell J.R.