Money Quotes
The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of the citizens to give to the other.Voltaire
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.Mark Twain
We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.Anthony Burgess
A little wonton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.Sir Thomas More, Works
Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.Ludwig van Beethoven
Chain letters are not illegal. What is illegal is to threaten lives in such letters or solicit money.Deane Jordan
Virtue has never been as respectable as money.Mark Twain
The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.Sam Ewig
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.Henry David Thoreau
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.Henry David Thoreau, "Walden, " the Conclusion
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962
We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.George Farquha
Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.John Ciardi
History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (1972)
When money is seen as a solution for every problem, money itself becomes the problem.Richard Needham
If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people He gives it to.Joe Moore
Business is a good game - Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.Atari founder Nolan Bushnell
Every sale has five basic obstacles no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.Zig Zigla
If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.Marya Mannes
A lot of advertisers lined up to throw money at this stuff because they were caught up in the hysteria about the Web. But now they want to know how you make money selling a 1. 59 bottle of dish detergent on the World Wide Web.Karen Burka
The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.Charles Schwa
Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered.Anon.
Humanity has unquestionably one really effective weapon? laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution? these can lift at a colossal humbug? push it a little? weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, chapter 10 (1916)
Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.Charles Farrar Browne
Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.J. Paul Getty
Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.George Bernard Shaw
Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns - - Or dollars. Take your choice - - There is no other.Ayn Rand
Money alone sets all the world in motion.Publilius Syrus
Creativity comes from zeal to do something, generally it is to make some money.B. J. Gupta
Success produces success, just as money produces money.Diane Ackerman
Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money.W. J. Cameron
Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you to miserable in comfort.Lord Mancroft
It is easier to talk about money - - And much easier to talk about sex - - Than it is to talk about power. People who have it deny it people who want it do not want to appear to hunger for it and people who engage in its machinations do so secretly.Smiley Blanton
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money.Ayn Rand
What power has law where only money rules.Gaius Petronius
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.Unknown
The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.Katharine Whitehorn
