"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons."
~ Woody Allen
"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."
~ ee 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 [in David Copperfield]
"A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money."
~ Senator Everett Dirksen
"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
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"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
"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
"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
"It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow citizens."
~ John Maynard Keynes
