Quotes
Quotes about Money
He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends.
Nothing comes amiss; so money comes withal.
Put money in thy purse.
Get money; still get money, boy,
No matter by what means.
[The rich] are indeed rather possessed by their money than possessors.
Were it not that they are loath to lay out money on a rope, they would be hanged forthwith, and sometimes die to save charges.
For words are wise men's counters,--they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools.
Health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of,--a blessing that money cannot buy.
For what is worth in anything
But so much money as 't will bring?
With books and money plac'd for show
Like nest-eggs to make clients lay,
And for his false opinion pay.
Remember that time is money.
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?
Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
I asked of Echo 't other day
(Whose words are few and often funny),
What to a novice she could say
Of courtship, love, and matrimony.
Quoth Echo, plainly,--"Matter-o'-money."
How pleasant it is to have money!
O Banner!
Not houses of peace are you, nor any nor all of their prosperity; if need be you shall have every one of those houses to destroy them;
You thought not to destroy those valuable houses, standing fast, full of comfort, built with money;
May they stand fast then? Not an hour, unless you, above them and all, stand fast.
Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.
And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame;
And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame;
But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star,
Shall draw the Thing as he sees It, for the God of Things as They Are!
A good reputation is more valuable than money.
Money alone sets all the world in motion.
He preferred an honest man that wooed his daughter, before a rich man. "I would rather," said Themistocles, "have a man that wants money than money that wants a man."
Alcæus mentions Aristodemus in these lines:--
'T is money makes the man; and he who's none
Is counted neither good nor honourable.
Subject to a kind of disease, which at that time they called lack of money.
After meat comes mustard; or, like money to a starving man at sea, when there are no victuals to be bought with it.
