56 Metaphors for riches

In America, the rich are necessarily our only aristocracy.

Rich is the man, I can tell thee.

Though not without some difficulty, he convinced them,for he was exceedingly rich, and riches in an uncle are wonderful arguments respecting the nurture of a nephew whose parents have nothing to leave him.

The rich are neither waylaid by robbers, nor watched by informers; there is nothing to be dreaded from proscriptions, or seizures.

These patriots are not, however, so uninformed, nor so disinterested, as to suppose they are to serve their country without serving themselves; and they perfectly understand, that the rich are their legal patrimony, and that it is enjoined them by their mission to pillage royalists and aristocrats.

Her greatest riches are her braw sons and daughters, the Scots folk who've gone o'er a' the world.

Riches I deny not are God's good gifts, and blessings; and honor est in honorante, honours are from God; both rewards of virtue, and fit to be sought after, sued for, and may well be possessed: yet no such great happiness in having, or misery in wanting of them.

He that would gain wealth must first win freedom, for without freedom the richest is but a sorry slave.

Both the rich and the wretched are types of womanhood; both are linked together, forming one great body; and both have the same part in good and evil.

The same marvelous riches that distinguish Cuba are the inheritance of Luzon.

We spent some days in wandering round the town making inquiries, and learnt that most of the diamond-buyers lived near one another in a certain little street, whose name I have forgotten, but that the richest and best known of them was one Krispijn Aldobrand.

However that may be, the law would benefit the rich, because the rich would be owners of the land.

Riches are no use to fools like us; they spoil us.

He says that if he is not allowed to kill bulls in order to get rich, he will kill men to get out of his poverty; that he has as much right to enjoyment as any gentleman, and that all the rich are robbers.

The rich and fashionable were Unitarians.

Rich was his soul, though his attire was poor; (As God had clothed his own ambassador;) For such, on earth, his bless'd Redeemer bore.

Such great riches were an insult to his misfortunes; that man had come there to make an exhibition of his immense wealth on the very day that he, Tales, for lack of money, for lack of protectors, had to abandon the house raised by his own hands.

In another of Jan. 29, he thus expresses that indifference for worldly possessions which he so remarkably carried through the remainder of his life: "I know the rich are only stewards for the poor, and must give an account of every penny; therefore, the less I have, the more easy will it be to give an account of it."

The rich, because it relieved them of "property" which was fast becoming a disgrace, as it had always been a vexation and a tax, and because it has emancipated them from the terrors of insurrection, which kept them all their life time subject to bondage.

Rich were his clothes also, but not so gay as the stout Bishop's.

Her greatest riches are her braw sons and daughters, the Scots folk who've gone o'er a' the world.

He presently rejected it by answering, "Rich is not quite the word for me, dame.

Nassau is rich in mineral waters, and richer in generous winesits Johannesberger, Hockheimer, Rudesheimer, Markbrenner, Asmanshäuser, Steinberger, Shiersteiner, &c. are the most noble juice of the grape.

It is an easy way of cutting the knot, to declare that the rich are the cause of all the sufferings of the poor; but when we look at the case in all its bearings, we shall see that that is rank nonsense.

" [Footnote A: Christopher Rich was the father of John Rich, a manager who excelled in pantomime, and who appreciated the "legitimate" as little as did his father.]

56 Metaphors for  riches