Money Quotes
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.Henry David Thoreau, "Walden, " the Conclusion
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.Norman O. Brown
Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.Roger Sta
A billion here, a billion there - Pretty soon it adds up to real money.Senator Everett Dirksen
A little wonton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.Sir Thomas More, Works
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Ready money works great cures.French Prove
Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.Richard M. DeVos
Corporations have been enthroned.... An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands... and the Republic is destroyed.Abraham Lincoln
Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety.Joe Moore
Everything can be learned, including, to a very large extent, to be what you are not. You can learn to be pretty if you are plain, charming if you are dull, thin if you are fat, youthful if you are aging, how to write though you are inarticulate, how to make money though you are not good with figures.Henry Anatole Grunwald
If thee marries for money, thee surely will earn it.Ezra Bowen
Virtue has never been as respectable as money.Mark Twain
If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.Eleanor Roosevelt
A married man with a family will do anything for money.Charles De Talleyrand
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
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.Mark Twain
Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.Henry David Thoreau
The love of money is the root of all virtue.George Bernard Shaw
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
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.Adlai Ewing Stevenson
Every sale has five basic obstacles no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.Zig Zigla
Most idealistic people are skint. I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money.Simone Weil
Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money.W. J. Cameron
I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.Steve Martin
I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.Themistocles, from Plutarch, Lives
How much money did you make last year Mail it in. suggestion for a simplified tax form.Stanton Delaplane
Business is a good game - Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.Atari founder Nolan Bushnell
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.Henry David Thoreau
Only after the last tree has been cut down, Only after the last river has been poisoned, Only after the last fish has been caught, Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.Cree Indian Prophecy
The surest way to get rid of a bore is to lend money to him.Paul Louis Courie
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.Wystan Hugh Auden
Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent
When it is a question of money, everyone is of the same religion.Voltaire
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.Henry Ford
The world is divided into two kinds of people, those who spend a great deal of time saving money, and those who spend a great deal of money saving time.Peter Cochrane, Head of BT Labs UK taling about the internet - November 2000
The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward. - From Live Without Principle.Henry David Thoreau
