Quotes and Sayings About Opulence
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Only economists mistake physical opulence for riches.
-- Aldo Leopold -
To all my friends without distinction I am ready to display my opulence: come one, come all; and whosoever likes to take a share is welcome to the wealth that lies within my soul.
-- Antisthenes -
If poverty makes man groan, he yawns in opulence. When fortune exempts us from labor, nature overwhelms us with time.
-- Antoine Rivarol -
The extremes of opulence and of want are more remarkable, and more constantly obvious, in [Great Britain] than in any other place that I ever saw.
-- John Quincy Adams -
Opulence is the law of the universe, an abundant supply for every need if nothing is put in the way of its coming.
-- Ralph Waldo Trine -
The opulence of Wilde is a bit too florid for Sherlock, who is a much darker character, ... fascinated by the human condition, but also overwhelmed by it.
-- Rupert Everett
