Money Quotations - Quotations

Guest Author - Danielle Hollister

"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. "
-- Woody Allen
"Fabrum esse suae quemque fortunae. ~ Each man the architect of his own fate. Appius Caecus, Quoted by Sallust, De Civitate, I. 2
"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. "
--Aristotle
"Money is like muck, not good except it be spread."
-- Francis Bacon, Essays, 15, `Of Seditions and Troubles'
"Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand."
-- Aphra Behn
"A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things."
--Bible, Ecclesiastes 10:19
"The love of money is the root of all evil."
--Bible, 1 Timothy 6:10
"'What is the robbing of a bank compared to the FOUNDING of a bank?'"
--Bertolt Brecht
"Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money."
--Gerald Brenan
"It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly."
-- Samuel Butler
"The rich are the scum of the earth in every country."
-- G. K. Chesterton
"Endless money forms the sinews of war."
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself."
-- William Cobbett
"Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot live."
-- Charles Caleb Colton
"Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfil. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman away."
--Abraham Cowley
"I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart."
-- E E Cummings
"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery."
-- Charles Dickens David Copperfield
"A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money."
-- Senator Everett Dirksen
"I'm tired of Love: I'm still more tired of Rhyme. / But Money gives me pleasure all the time."
--Joachim Du Bellay
"Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves."
-- Albert Einstein
"One must be poor to know the luxury of giving."
-- George Eliot
"Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil."
-- Henry Fielding
"My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income."
-- Errol Flynn
"He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money."
-- Benjamin Franklin
"If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting."
-- Benjamin Franklin
"Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. "
-- Benjamin Franklin
"If you'd know the value of money, go and borrow some."
--Benjamin Franklin
"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars."
-- J. Paul Getty
"Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle."
-- Ken Hakuta
"Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have."
-- Ernest Haskins
"The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough."
--Heinrich Heine
"A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it."
--Bob Hope
"A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles."
--Edgar Watson Howe
"No man's credit is as good as his money."
--Edgar Watson Howe
"When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any."
--Edgar Watson Howe
"Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money."
-- Horace
"Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not."
--Horace
"It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed."
-- Kin Hubbard
"The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket."
-- Kin Hubbard
"Never spend your money before you have it."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it."
-- Rebecca Johnson
"There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money."
--Dr Samuel Johnson
"What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more. "
--Dr Samuel Johnson
"It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow citizens."
--John Maynard Keynes

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