quotations about money
If we could let go of our faith in money, who knows what we might put in its place?
LEWIS H. LAPHAM
Money and Class in America
Money alone sets all the world in motion.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Maxims
The Management of money is, in much, the management of self. If heaven allotted to each man seven guardian angels, five of them, at least, would be found night and day hovering over his pockets.
EDWARD BULWER LYTTON
Caxtoniana
Money is the seal and stamp of success.
D. H. LAWRENCE
Lady Chatterley's Lover
To despise money, one must have plenty of it.
CESARE PAVESE
This Business of Living, February 2, 1938
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
The miser who clings to his money and will not give up any of it because of the pleasure which its possession affords him cannot have any of the material comforts of life. He lives in continual want and discomfort in spite of all his wealth.
JAMES ALLEN
Byways of Blessedness
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
For me, money is easy to come by. I enjoy spending money. I rarely worry about money. Money flows in and out of my life. my life is too short to worry about money. I always have enough money to be comfortable.
TERRAN JAMES
Money and Success is Mind Over Matter
Money, like a running horse, should be kept--well-in-hand.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
I don't like dealing with money transactions in poor countries. I get confused between the feeling that I shouldn't haggle with poverty and getting ripped off.
ALEX GARLAND
The Beach
Money is part of the private capital of an individual only if and so far as it constitutes a means by which the individual in question can obtain other capital goods.
LUDWIG VON MISES
Theory of Money and Credit
When a man makes a specialty of knowing how some other fellow ought to spend his money, he usually thinks in millions and works for hundreds.
GEORGE HORACE LORIMER
Old Gorgon Graham
Money had no name of course. And if it did have a name, it would no longer be money. What gave money its true meaning was its dark-night namelessness, its breathtaking interchangeability.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
All my money is tied up in Skee ball tickets.
JIMMY KIMMEL
Jimmy Kimmel Live!, August 4, 2011
We ought not to have more use and esteem of money and coin than of stones. And the devil seeks to blind those who desire or value it more than stones. Let us therefore take care lest after having left all things we lose the kingdom of heaven for such a trifle. And if we should chance to find money in any place, let us no more regard it than the dust we tread under our feet.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
First Rule of the Friars Minor
'Tis money that begets money.
THOMAS FULLER
Gnomologia
Money, which represents the prose of life, and is hardly spoken of in parlors without apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
"Nominalist and Realist", Essays
Whatever you want must first be born in mind; nothing can come into the objective world that is not already in mind. Human beings have different wants and different ideals. While money in itself has no value except as it is employed as a medium of exchange, and to promote health, happiness and usefulness; hence, in the last analysis, money is an important factor in helping to bring into outward expression ideas and ideals, which are first born in mind.
WALTER MATTHEWS
"Money", Human Life from Many Angles
Money is a terrible blab; she will betray the secrets of her owner, whatever he do to gag her. His virtues will creep out in her whisper; his vices she will cry aloud at the top of her tongue.
EDWARD BULWER LYTTON
Caxtoniana