riches

rich·es  (rchz)

pl.n.

1. Abundant wealth: "the impassable gulf that lies between riches and poverty" (Elizabeth Cady Stanton).

2. Valuable or precious possessions.

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[Middle English richesse, wealth, from Old French, from riche, wealthy; see rich.]

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riches [ˈrɪtʃɪz]

pl n

wealth; an abundance of money, valuable possessions, or property

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Riches 

See Also: ABUNDANCE, FORTUNE/MISFORTUNE, MONEY, SUCCESS/FAILURE

1. Appearance of wealth will draw wealth to it. As honey draws hungry flies —George Garrett
2. Have money like sand —Louis MacNeice
3. His bank account swelled like a puff ball —Christina Stead
4. Inherited wealth is as certain death to ambition as cocaine is to morality —William K. Vanderbilt
5. Like our other passions, the desire for riches is more sharpened by their use than by their lack —Michel de Montaigne
6. A man that keeps riches but doesn’t enjoy them is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles —Thomas Fuller

   “Doesn’t enjoy them” has been modernized from “And enjoys them not.”

7. More money than the telephone company’s got wrong numbers —Sam Hellman
8. (The auction was attended by collectors with) pockets as deep as wells —Anon
9. Property, like liberty, thought immune under the Constitution from destruction, is not immune from regulation essential for the common good —Benjamin Cardozo
10. Prosperity is like a tender mother, but blind, who spoils her children —English proverb
11. Prosperity is like perfume, it often makes the head ache —Duchess of Newcastle
12. The rich are driven by wealth as beggars by the itch —W. B. Yeats
13. Rich as a congressman —Carson McCullers
14. Riches, like insects, when concealed they lie, wait but for wings, and in their season fly —Alexander Pope

    Pope spelled the fifth word “conceal’d.”

15. The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality —Benjamin Franklin
16. Wealth is an engine that can be used for power if you are an engineer; but to be tied to the flywheel of an engine is rather a misfortune —Elbert Hubbard
17. Wealth is like a viper, which is harmless if a man knows how to take hold of it; but if he does not, it will twine round his hand and bite him —Saint Clement
18. Wealth like rheumatism falls on the weakest parts —John Ray’s Proverbs
19. Worldly riches are like nuts; many clothes are torn in getting them, many a tooth broke in cracking them, but never a belly filled with eating them —Ralph Venning

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

riches - an abundance of material possessions and resources wealth material resource - assets in the form of material possessions gold - great wealth; "Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold, and almost every vice--almighty gold"--Ben Jonson hoarded wealth, treasure - accumulated wealth in the form of money or jewels etc.; "the pirates hid their treasure on a small island in the West Indies"

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riches

plural noun

1. wealth, money, property, gold, assets, plenty, fortune, substance, treasure, abundance, richness, affluence, opulence, top dollar (informal) Some people want fame or riches.
wealth want, need, lack, poverty, scarcity, dearth, paucity, indigence, scantiness

2. resources, stocks, stores, treasures Russia's vast natural riches

Quotations
"The chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches" [Adam Smith Wealth of Nations]
"Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress" [Francis Bacon De Dignitate et Augmentis Scientiarum]

Translations

riches [ˈrɪtʃɪz] NPL → riqueza fsing

riches [ˈrɪtʃɪz] npl → ricchezze fpl