quotations about money
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
I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.
ROMAIN ROLLAND
attributed, The Anchor Book of French Quotations
When I had money, money, O!
I knew no joy till I went poor;
For many a false man as a friend
Came knocking all day at my door.
WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES
Money
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
Every man's credit is proportioned to the money which he has in his chest.
JUVENAL
Satires
Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.
PAUL NEWMAN
Paul Newman: A Life in Pictures
Money talks. If it's the dollar, it's small talk.
CROFT M. PENTZ
The Complete Book of Zingers
The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933
Be your money's master, not its slave.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Maxims
It is against nature for money to beget money.
FRANCIS BACON
"Of Usury", The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral
Money is the devil's eye.
ROMANIAN PROVERB
Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
APHRA BEHN
The Rover
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
Money is such a powerful symbol in American culture that people must take some stance in relation to it. They can save it for a rainy day, let it burn a hole in their pocket, use it to keep up with the Joneses, throw it away, neither borrow nor lend it, or turn their back on it altogether. Whatever they do, they must reckon with the idea of money as well as with however much or little money they happen to have.
ELIZABETH STONE
Black Sheep and Kissing Cousins: How Our Family Stories Shape Us
What is not exchanged for money is in the same state with respect to the money, as if it did not exist.
KARL MARX
Collected Works of Karl Marx
I guess money can't buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places.
NORA ROBERTS
Tribute
Money ... is like a beautiful thoroughbred horse--very powerful & always in action, but unless this horse is trained when very young, it will be an out-of-control & dangerous animal when it grows to maturity.
DAVE RAMSEY
Financial Peace Revisited
There are too many King Midases loose in the world. They do not have the Midas touch: they have the Midas look. They see nothing but money.... The universe, to them, is a balance-sheet: their minds are adding-machines: their hearts beat in tune with the ticker.
BRUCE FAIRCHILD BARTON
More Power to You
After initial needs are met--enough food, shelter, comfort--there is no correlation between money and happiness. That's a difficult thing for people to believe.
GENEEN ROTH
interview, Origin Magazine
All the illusions in regard to the monetary system are due to the fact that money is not regarded as something representing a social relation of production, but as a product of nature endowed with certain properties. The modern economists who sneer at the illusions of the monetary system, betray the same illusion as soon as they have to deal with higher economic forms, as, e.g., capital. It breaks forth in their confession of naïve surprise, when what they have just thought to have defined with great difficulty as a thing suddenly appears as a social relation and then reappears to tease them again as a thing, before they have barely managed to define it as a social relation.
KARL MARX
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy