MONEY QUOTES VIII

quotations about money


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It is easy, of course, to point out the dangers resulting from a too intense devotion to money-getting. Bacon calls riches "the baggage of virtue"; and we all know how the Romans, in their heroic days, when they annihilated their foes, expressed their contempt by a similar word, impedimenta; and that when they grew weak and degraded they clung to their gold, with which they bought off the barbarians who invaded them. But whatever may be said of the dangers of riches, the dangers of poverty are tenfold greater. A condition in which one is exposed to continual want, not only of the luxuries but of the veriest necessaries of life, as well as to disease and discouragement, is exceedingly unfavorable to the exercise of the higher functions of the mind and soul. The poor man is hourly beset by troops of temptations which the rich man never knows. Doubtless the highest virtues are sometimes found to flourish even in the cold clime and sterile soil of poverty. Not only industry, honesty, frugality, perseverance amid hardships and ever-baffling discouragement, severe self-sacrifice, tender affections, unwavering trust in Providence, all are formed blooming in the hearts of the poorest poor--even in the sunless regions of absolute destitution, where honesty might be expected to wear an everlasting scowl of churlishness, and a bitter disbelief in the love of God to accompany obedience to the laws of man. But it is the most insufferable of all cants to hear these qualities spoken of as if they were indigenous to poverty, when we know that they flourish in spite of it.

WILLIAM MATHEWS
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"Money--Its Use and Abuse", Hints on Success in Life


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In matters of money there's no such thing as enough.

JEAN ANOUILH

Thieves' Carnival

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One just spends as much money as one has. Very peculiar that! You never actually have any money. You think, If I had this much money ten years ago, I would have thought I was amazingly rich, but I still manage to spend it all and not have any left.

JEANETTE WINTERSON

The Paris Review, winter 1997

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When we lavish our money we rob our heir; when we merely save it we rob ourselves.

JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE

"Of the Gifts of Fortune", Les Caractères

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Money is like any other virus: once it has rotted the soul of the person who houses it, it sets off in search of new blood.

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON

The Shadow of the Wind

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Each of us, with money, gets further and further away from those moments where the hand pulls the beet root from the soil, shakes the fish from the net into the basket -- not to mention the way it separates us from one another, so that when enough money comes between people, they lie apart like parts of a chicken hacked up for stewing.

SAMUEL R. DELANY

Neverÿon

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If you wish to test a friend loan him money.

LEWIS F. KORNS

Thoughts

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Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.

SOPHOCLES

fragment, The Sons of Aleus

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The wealthy seldom possess wealth: oftener they are possessed by it.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts

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Money is an information system we use to deploy human effort.

MICHAEL LINTON

attributed, Money: Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender


Money is freedom. Money is a private plane. Money is no metal detection.

50 CENT

Esquire, January 2010

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A group of politicians want to replace the dollar bill with a coin. Rappers would be out of business. You can't make it rain with coins. People would get hurt. Strippers would have to wear fanny packs. You can't fill up a thong with coins. Get rid of the penny. If it's not worth bending over for, it's not worth making.

JIMMY KIMMEL

Jimmy Kimmel Live!, September 2011

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When money talks, nobody cares what kind of grammar it uses.

ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES

Poems and Paragraphs

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A man can no more make money suddenly and largely, and be unharmed by it, than one could suddenly grow from a child's stature to a man's without harm.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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No matter how successful a relationship may be, both sexually and emotionally, the lack of money can hamper and undermine, little by little, even the greatest passion.

LAURA ESQUIVEL

Swift as Desire

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How beauteous are rouleaus! how charming chests
Containing ingots, bags of dollars, coins
(Not of old victors, all whose heads and crests
Weigh not the thin ore where their visage shines,
But) of fine unclipt gold, where dully rests
Some likeness, which the glittering cirque confines,
Of modern, reigning, sterling, stupid stamp;--
Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

LORD BYRON

Don Juan

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Money is an agreement within a community to use something as a medium of exchange.

BERNARD LIETAER

The Future of Money


Money doesn't talk, it swears obscenity.

BOB DYLAN

"It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)"

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It's easy to clean up when you got money.

J. F. LAWTON

Pretty Woman

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We insist that "money is the root of all evil," and behave as if it were the source of all good.

CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM

The Maxims of Marmaduke

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