MONEY QUOTES IV
quotations about money
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
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
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
CHARLES DICKENS
"Our Parish", Sketches by Boz
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
No city, however massively fortified, is impregnable to a mule carrying chests of gold coins.
K. J. PARKER
Devices and Desires
You will either tell your money what to do or the lack of it will always manage you.
DAVE RAMSEY
daily tip, official website
Money can buy you a house, but can't buy you a home.
LEROY BAILEY JR.
"We Need God", June 14, 2007
No man's credit is as good as his money.
EDGAR WATSON HOWE
Country Town Sayings
Even money, which shines so much, spits sometimes.
FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA
Blood Wedding
The purse strings tie us to our kind.
WALTER BAGEHOT
Literary Studies
Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things. He gave it a chance. He even provided a first instalment of funds. Can you beat that? It's so magnificent. God despises nothing. After all, if the deal had come off, Judas would probably have endowed sanatoriums, hospitals, public libraries or laboratories.
GEORGES BERNANOS
The Diary of a Country Priest
Money is a sign of poverty.
IAIN M. BANKS
The State of the Art
Generally, money lies nearest them that are nearest their graves.
WILLIAM PENN
Some Fruits of Solitude
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
Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress.
FRANCIS BACON
De Augmentis Scientiarum
Money in the hands of one or two men is like a dungheap in a barnyard. So long as it lies in a mass, it does no good; but, if it is only spread out evenly on the land, everything will grow.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
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
I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.
ROMAIN ROLLAND
attributed, The Anchor Book of French Quotations