Quotes
Quotes about Money
Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known--that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.
Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.
How beauteous are rouleaus! how charming chests Containing ingots, bags of dollars, coins (Not of old victors, all whose heads and crests Weigh not the thin ore where their visage shines, But) of find unclipt gold, where dully rests Some likeness, which the glittering cirque confines, Of modern, reigning, sterling, stupid stamp;-- Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.
Money, which is of very uncertain value, and sometimes has no value at all and even less.
Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it.
As I sat at the Cafe I said to myself, They may talk as they please about what they call pelf, They may sneer as they like about eating and drinking, But help it I cannot, I cannot help thinking How pleasant it is to have money, heigh-ho! How pleasant it is to have money!
Money was made, not to command our will, But all out lawful pleasure to fulfil. Shame and woe to use, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman run away.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it's real money.
Money is like manure: It's not worth anything unless you spread it around.
Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.
Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.
Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
Money will come to you when you are doing the right thing.
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
Money is your means of survival. The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life. If the source is corrupt, you have damned your own existence. Did you get your money by fraud? By pandering to men's vices or men's stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope of getting more than your ability deserves? By lowering your standards? By doing work you despise for purchasers your scorn? If so, then your money will not give you a moment's or a penny's worth of joy. Then all the things you buy will become, not a tribute to you, but a reproach; not an achievement, but a reminder of shame. Then you'll scream that money is evil. Evil, because it would not pinch-hit for your self-respect? Evil, because it would not let you enjoy your depravity? Is this the root of your hatred of money?
Money begets money.
Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.
Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all.
Money dishonestly acquired is never worth its cost, while a good conscience never costs as much as it is worth.
Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.
