Money Quotes
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.Henry David Thoreau
Nothing more clearly show how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other wordly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.La Bruyere
Travel is educational it teaches you how to get rid of money in a hurry.S. Barry Lipkin
Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.Fannie Hurst
Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life.Gottfried Reinhardt
Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent
Lack of money is the root of all evil.George Bernard Shaw
Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.George Bernard Shaw
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.Margaret Young
There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money either.Robert Graves
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.Mark Twain
Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.Charles Fillmore
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.Samuel Johnson
If you can actually count your money you are not really a rich man.J. Paul Getty
Money talks... but all mine ever says is good - Bye.Anon.
History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (1972)
If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent an educator. If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist. If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us an economist. But since our greatest need was forgiveness, God sent us a Savior.Max Lucado
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.Mark Twain
The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.Henry David Thoreau
When money is seen as a solution for every problem, money itself becomes the problem.Richard Needham
Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.Sir Francis Bacon
Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.J. Paul Getty
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.Henry Ford
If you do something only for money, you will never succeed at it.Don Hall, (Hallmark CEO)
Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.Agatha Christie
Money is always there, but the pockets change.Gertrude Stein
Only sick music makes money today.Friedrich Nietzsche
Humanity has unquestionably one really effective weapon? laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution? these can lift at a colossal humbug? push it a little? weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, chapter 10 (1916)
If someone cheats you, get your money back. If someone slanders you, call him to account. If someone makes a promise, see that it is kept If you have to be a pest, then be one, and be proud of it.Donald G. Smith
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.Evan Esa
The way money goes so fast these days, they should paint racing stripes on it.Mark Russell
Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute, but they all worship money.Mark Twain
With money in your pocket you are wise, you are handsome, and you sing well too.Jewish Prove
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.Henry Ford
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.Donald Trump, "Trump: Art of the Deal".
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.H. L. Mencken
