A Quote by Daniel Defoe

He that is rich is wise.

Daniel Defoe

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Daniel Defoe
English - Journalist
1660 - 1731

When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’.

Epictetus

He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

George Herbert

If a man is wise, he gets rich an' if he gets rich, he gets foolish, or his wife does. That's what keeps the money movin' around.

Finley Peter Dunne

If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man.

Jean de la Bruyere

He hazardeth much who depends for his learning on experience. An unhappy master, he that is only made wise by many shipwrecks; a miserable merchant, that is neither rich nor wise till he has been bankrupt. By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.

Roger Ascham

I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.

Sophia Loren

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

Samuel Johnson

Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.

John Ray

Adversity makes men wise but not rich.

John Ray

He that is rich is wise, And all men learned poverty despise.

Daniel Defoe

Nature herself makes the wise man rich.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I think that everyone is saying all kinds of things about 'rich.' Not only am I rich from doing some of things I've been able to do, but I'm rich in spirit. I'm rich in health. I'm rich in every way possible.