quotations about money
Money is an agreement within a community to use something as a medium of exchange.
BERNARD LIETAER
The Future of Money
A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.
ALBERT CAMUS
The Myth of Sisyphus
Each of us, with money, gets further and further away from those moments where the hand pulls the beet root from the soil, shakes the fish from the net into the basket -- not to mention the way it separates us from one another, so that when enough money comes between people, they lie apart like parts of a chicken hacked up for stewing.
SAMUEL R. DELANY
Neverÿon
Money is an information system we use to deploy human effort.
MICHAEL LINTON
attributed, Money: Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender
Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
SOPHOCLES
fragment, The Sons of Aleus
Endless money forms the sinews of war.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
Philippics
How beauteous are rouleaus! how charming chests
Containing ingots, bags of dollars, coins
(Not of old victors, all whose heads and crests
Weigh not the thin ore where their visage shines,
But) of fine unclipt gold, where dully rests
Some likeness, which the glittering cirque confines,
Of modern, reigning, sterling, stupid stamp;--
Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.
LORD BYRON
Don Juan
Love and money should properly have nothing to do with each other.
JOHN SAUL
Guardian
A man can no more make money suddenly and largely, and be unharmed by it, than one could suddenly grow from a child's stature to a man's without harm.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Money and goods are certainly the best of references.
CHARLES DICKENS
Our Mutual Friend
You put a wage behind something, it gives the act a sort of respectability.
PATRICK DEWITT
The Sisters Brothers
For most wooden-headed people worship money; and, really, I do not see what else they can do.
OLIVER HEAVISIDE
Electromagnetic Theory
If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.
ENGLISH PROVERB
We insist that "money is the root of all evil," and behave as if it were the source of all good.
CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM
The Maxims of Marmaduke
Money was invented to spend.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON
Dune: House Harkonnen
When money talks, nobody cares what kind of grammar it uses.
ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES
Poems and Paragraphs
Stripped of ideals, mere money making is among the coarsest of occupations.
LEWIS F. KORNS
Thoughts
Never pretend to have money except when you are in straits. The poor man who pretends to have a bank account betters his credit and takes no risk. But the prosperous individual who counts his money in the street, forthwith will be invited to attend a charity bazaar.
GEORGE ADE
"The Fable of the Old Fox and the Young Fox", True Bills
Money. Cause of all evil, Auri sacra fames. The god of the day--but not to be confused with Apollo.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Dictionary of Received Ideas
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: The Art of the Deal