MONEY QUOTES IV
quotations about money
The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of it, is this--they throw it away as soon as they get it on the first whim or extravagance that strikes them, and have nothing left to meet ordinary expenses or discharge old debts.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Characteristics
Everybody needs money. That's why it's called "money".
DANNY DEVITO
Heist
Money is everywhere. For some it is everything. For all it is necessary.
GEORG SIMMEL
The Philosophy of Money
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
CHARLES DICKENS
"Our Parish", Sketches by Boz
There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is to enjoy earning it.
EDGAR WATSON HOWE
Country Town Sayings
Well, there's one thing to be said for money. It can make you rich.
TOM ROBBINS
Jitterbug Perfume
I'll acquaint you with the first ironclad rule of the enormously wealthy: Never spend one's own money.
MARK FROST
The List of Seven
Money can buy you a house, but can't buy you a home.
LEROY BAILEY JR.
"We Need God", June 14, 2007
Money is a sign of poverty.
IAIN M. BANKS
The State of the Art
You will either tell your money what to do or the lack of it will always manage you.
DAVE RAMSEY
daily tip, official website
No city, however massively fortified, is impregnable to a mule carrying chests of gold coins.
K. J. PARKER
Devices and Desires
Even money, which shines so much, spits sometimes.
FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA
Blood Wedding
I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.
ROMAIN ROLLAND
attributed, The Anchor Book of French Quotations
The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvellous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven. Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!
HERMAN MELVILLE
Moby Dick
Like water to the fish, money is the primary medium within which we live our economic lives.
THOMAS GRECO
Money: Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender
A dowried wife, friends, beauty, birth, fair fame,
These are the gifts of money, heavenly dame:
Be but a moneyed man, persuasion tips
Your tongue, and Venus settles on your lips.
HORACE
Epistles
Money attracts because it gives us the means to command the labor and service and finally the lives of others--human or otherwise.
EDWARD ABBEY
The Serpents of Paradise
No man's credit is as good as his money.
EDGAR WATSON HOWE
Country Town Sayings
The purse strings tie us to our kind.
WALTER BAGEHOT
Literary Studies
Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress.
FRANCIS BACON
De Augmentis Scientiarum