"Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress." - Francis Bacon, De Dignitate et Augmentis Scientiarum

"No one can earn a million dollars honestly." - William Jennings Bryan

"It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore." - Alex Carey

"Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by other men." - Charles Caleb Colton

"Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip." - Charles Caleb Colton

"It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth." - Charles Caleb Colton

"A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking big money." - Everett M. Dirksen, attributed

"It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble." - Epicurus

"Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it." - Benjamin Franklin

"Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments." - Samuel Johnson

"When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?" - Don Marquis

"I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion." - Henry David Thoreau

"In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?" - Mark Twain

"Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper." - Crisp, Quentin

"Wisdom is the wealth of the wise." - Ecclesiasticus (200 B.C.?)

"When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'" - Marquis, Don