Famous prosperity quotations

   Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.  Nice Word by Goethe

   It isn't so much that hard times are coming; the change observed is mostly soft times going.  Meaningful Quotation by Groucho Marx

Inspirational Sayings, Motivational Quotes, Great Words, Witty Proverbs
   We face the question whether a still higher standard of living is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free.  Good Quote by Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 1949

   Pearls around the neck - stones upon the heart.  Wise Phrase by Hanan J. Ayalti, Yiddish Proverbs, 1949

   Luxury: The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.  Wise Phrase by Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, 1923

   Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.  Famous Saying by Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Satires

   So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.  Nice Word by Henry George, Progress and Poverty, 1879

   Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.  Meaningful Quotation by Rousseau, The Social Contract, 1762

   The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.  Good Quote by Alan Gregg

   There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.  Wise Phrase by Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, 1820

   We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable.  Wise Phrase by J.B. Priestley

   In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.  Famous Saying by Benjamin Franklin

   Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.  Nice Word by Francis Bacon

   The American reading his Sunday paper in a state of lazy collapse is perhaps the most perfect symbol of the triumph of quantity over quality.... Whole forests are being ground into pulp daily to minister to our triviality.  Meaningful Quotation by Irving Babbitt

   Men can bear all things except good days.  Good Quote by Dutch Proverb

   I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.  Wise Phrase by E.F. Schumacher

   A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.  Wise Phrase by Sa'di (Musharrif-uddin)

   When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.  Famous Saying by Confucius

   If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.  Nice Word by Frank Lloyd Wright

   Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields.  Meaningful Quotation by Charles Wagner

   Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.  Good Quote by Aldous Huxley, Island

   Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.  Wise Phrase by Bill Vaughan

   Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, Let no more riches enter!  Wise Phrase by Aeschylus

   Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.  Famous Saying by Don Marquis

   Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.  Nice Word by John Clapham, A Concise Economic History of Britain, 1957



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