Sunday, October 31, 2010

What's a Heavy Curse in a Fool's Pocket?

auntnanny said it ...Image by bunchofpants via FlickrNothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. – Jonathon Swift


What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power. This same tendency, operating with increasing force, is observable in our civilization today, showing itself in every progressive community, and with greater intensity the more progressive the community. – Henry George


Golden shackles are far worse than iron ones. – Mohandas ghandhi


Abundance is a blessing to the wise;
The use of riches in discretion lies;
Learn this, ye men of wealth – a heavy purse
In a fool’s pocket is a heavy curse.


To open a shop is easy, to keep it open is an art. – Confucius

Buy cheap, sell dear. – Thomas Lodge


Saturday, October 30, 2010

Going to Hell in Embroidrery

Embroidery SampleImage by Urban Combing (Ultrastar175g) via FlickrWatch lest prosperity destroy generosity. – Henry Ward Beecher




Better go to heaven in rags than to hell in embroidery. – Proverb



A fortune is usually the greatest of misfortunes to children. It takes the muscles out of the limbs, the brain out of the head, and virtue out of the heart. – Henry Ward Beecher



It is poor encouragement to toil through life to amass a fortune to ruin your children. In nine cases out of ten, a large fortune is the greatest curse which could be bequeathed to the young and inexperienced. – Jean de la Bruyere



To acquire wealth is difficult, to preserve it more difficult, but to spend it wisely most difficult of all. – Edward Parsons Day



Riches enlarge, rather than satisfy appetite. – Thomas Fuller


Friday, October 29, 2010

Why Worldly Riches are like Nuts

Porsche Carrera GT Lock NutImage by ChrisMRichards via FlickrThe rich never feel so good as when they are speaking of their possessions as responsibilities. – Robert Lynd




For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca



The rich are the real outcasts of society, and special missions should be organized for them. – Norman Macleod

Keep company with the very rich and you’ll end up picking up the check. – Stanley Walker

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 stay sober. – Logan Pearsall Smith

Worldly riches are like nuts; many clothes are torn in getting them, many a tooth broke in cracking them, but never a belly filled with eating them. – Ralph Venning


Thursday, October 28, 2010

The Journey from Rage to Wretchedness

The Hughes H-4 Hercules with Howard Hughes at ...Image via WikipediaA man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. – Henry David Throreau




Nowadays, we think of a philanthropist as someone who donates big sums of money, yet the word is derived from two Greek words, philos (loving) and anthropos (man); loving man. All of us are capable of being philanthropists. We can give of ourselves. – Edward Lindsey



It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive. – Walter Kane



The prosperous man is never sure that he is loved for himself. – Marcus Lucan



The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes. – Gore Vidal



Sometimes the pilgrimage from rags to riches is a journey from rage to wretchedness. – R.W. Huber


Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Watching Catastrophes from the Terrace

Hampton TerraceImage via WikipediaWealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. – Benjamin Franklin




A man’s true wealth is the good he does in this world. – Mohammed



Only the brave deserve the fair, but only the rich, fat, cowardly merchants can afford same. – Chinese Proverb



Don’t try to die rich but live rich. – Thomas Bird Mosher



The privelede of the great is to see catastrophes from a terrace. – Jean Giradoux



The best way to realize the pleasure of feeling rich is to live in a smaller house tthanyour means would entitle you to have. – Edward Clarke