Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.
Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.
Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.
Money is always there but the pockets change.
Money talks â but credit has an echo.
Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonalâthat there is no human relationship between master and slave.
Money doesn't sleep.
Money â the root of all evil.... Man needs roots.
Money will not buy happiness, but it will let you be unhappy in nice places.
Money can't buy happiness, but it does quiet the nerves.
Money can't buy happiness; it can, however, rent it.
Money can't buy real friendshipâfriendship must be earned. Money can't buy a clear conscienceâsquare dealing is the price tag. Money can't buy the glow of good healthâright living is the secret. Money can't buy happinessâhappiness is a mental condition and one may be as happy in a cottage as in a mansion. Money can't buy sunsets, songs of wild birds and the music of the wind in the treesâthese are as free as the air we breath. Money can't buy inward peaceâpeace is the result of a constructive philosophy in life. Money can't buy a good characterâgood character is achieved through decent habits of private living and wholesome dealings in our open contacts with our fellow men.
A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
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 like muck, not good except it be spread.
Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
The love of money is the root of all evil.
Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.
Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman away.
If you'd know the value of money, go and borrow some.
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.
Money can't buy happiness; it can, however, rent it.
Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.
Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.