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If youth knew what age would crave. It would both get and save.

Traditional · English / proverb

Meaning: Awareness of later needs can encourage preparation while circumstances allow. The saying connects youthful foresight with provision for another stage of life.

02c. 83 AD

Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

Plutarch / quote

03c. 1593 AD

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that it may be said to possess him.

Francis Bacon / quote

04c. 1590 AD

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy; for the apparel oft proclaims the man.

William Shakespeare / quote

05c. 1646 AD

Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.

Francis, Duc De La Rochefoucauld / quote

06c. 1615 AD

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Bishop Hall / quote

07c. 1842 AD

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

08c. 1839 AD

The distinguishing trait of people accustomed to good society is a calm, imperturbable quiet which pervades all their actions and habits, from the greatest to the least. They eat in quiet, move in quiet, live in quiet, and lose their wife, or even their money, in quiet; while low persons cannot take up either a spoon or an affront without making such an amazing noise about it.

Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote

09c. 1590 AD

It is the mind that makes the body rich.

William Shakespeare / quote

10c. 32 AD

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without culture, so the mind without cultivation can never produce good fruit.

Seneca / quote

11c. 1706 AD

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift / quote

12c. 1838 AD

The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant.

Thomas Carlyle / quote

13c. 1746 AD

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

Samuel Johnson / quote

14c. 83 AD

If we traverse the world, it is possible to find cities without walls, without letters, without kings, without wealth, without coin, without schools and theatres; but a city without a temple, or that practiseth not worship, prayer, and the like, no one ever saw.

Plutarch / quote

15c. 1855 AD

The only conclusive evidence of a man's sincerity is that he gives himself for a principle. Words, money, all things else, are comparatively easy to give away; but when a man makes a gift of his daily life and practice, it is plain that the truth, whatever it may be, has taken possession of him.

James Russell Lowell / quote

16c. 1593 AD

Seek not proud wealth; but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.

Francis Bacon / quote

17c. 1842 AD

The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth, but if men should take these moralists at their word, and leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people, lest civilization should be undone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

18c. 1581 AD

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Miguel De Cervantes / quote

19c. 1830 AD

No man is rich whose expenditures exceed his means; and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.

Thomas C. Haliburton / quote

20c. 1748 AD

The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.

Benjamin Franklin / quote

21c. 1748 AD

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it: "Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith."

Benjamin Franklin / quote

22c. 1745 AD

Everything made by man may be destroyed by man; there are no ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature; and nature makes neither princes nor rich men nor great lords.

Jean Jacques Rousseau / quote

23c. 1748 AD

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

Benjamin Franklin / quote

24c. 1748 AD

Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the house, clothes on the back, and vigor in the body.

Benjamin Franklin / quote