A Quote by Juvenal

A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.

Juvenal

Quote Topics

Gotten Heir Ill Profits Seldom Third Wealth

Quote Author

Juvenal
Roman - Poet
60 - 130

A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.

Juvenal

Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.

Miguel de Cervantes

Ill-gotten wealth is never stable.

Euripides

I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Once upon a time, the most successful Democratic leader of them all, FDR, looked south and said I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill clad, ill nourished. Today our national Democratic leaders look south and say, I see one third of a nation and it can go to hell.

Zell Miller

Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization from its first dawn to the present day; wealth, and again wealth, and for the third time wealth; wealth, not of society, but of the puny individual, was its only and final aim.

Friedrich Engels

Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.

Charles Fillmore

Ill gotten gains will be ill spent.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It must be fundamentally wrong to reduce production of food and fiber while one-third of our population is still ill fed and ill clothed.

Benjamin Graham

Today, we live in a world of incredible wealth and technology, alongside the most horrendous conditions of poverty, war and environmental crisis. This is result of capitalism, a system based on prioritizing profits not human need where the wealth is concentrated in the hands of a capitalist elite.

Kshama Sawant

I am privileged to be the heir to huge wealth, and I regard myself as a custodian of that money for the benefit of people who need it more than I do.

John Paul Getty Jr.

Ill fortune seldom comes alone.

John Dryden

Profits are the driving force of the market economy. The greater the profits, the better the needs of the consumers are supplied... He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.

Ludwig von Mises

Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.

Miguel de Cervantes

Ill customs and bad advice are seldom forgotten.

Benjamin Franklin

For as wealth is power, so all power will infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other; and when men are left no way of ascertaining their profits but by their means of obtaining them, those means will be increased to infinity.

Edmund Burke

A Quote by Juvenal

Quote Topics

Quote Author

Related Quotes

Related Authors