MONEY

Related Subjects: Avarice, Bribery, Credit, Debt, Dollar, Gold, Inflation, Mammon, Miser, Patronage, Profit, Riches

1. What this country needs is a good five cent nickel.—F. P. A.
   

2. Money and freedom may be pleasant and useful but they are not the essence of any art, that of life any more than any other.—JAMES TRUSLOW ADAMS, The Art of Living
   

3. Money—the desire for money—the need of money has always been hurtful to me and to all men and women I have known.—SHERWOOD ANDERSON, Notebook
   

4. The love of money is the root of all evil.—Bible, 1 Timothy 6:10
   

5. What makes all doctrines plain and clear?
   About two hundred pounds a year.
   And that which was prov'd true before
   Prove false again? Two hundred more.—SAMUEL BUTLER, Hudibras
   

6. Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.—BYRON, Don Juan
   

7. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.—DICKENS, David Copperfield
   

8. Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.—EMERSON, Nominalist and Realist
   

9. The world is his, who has money to go over it.—EMERSON, Conduct of Life
   

10. He knew that there was only one reality in this world—money. War and peace, life and death, the virtue of women, the Pope's power to bind or to loose, the Estates' enthusiasm for liberty, the purity of the Augsburg Confession, the ships on the sea, the coercive power of princes, the Christianizing of the New World, love, piety, cowardice, wantonness, blasphemy and virtue, they were all derived from money and they would all turn into money, and they could all be expressed in plain figures.—FEUCHTWANGER, Power
    

11. A penny will hide the biggest star in the universe if you hold it close enough to your eye.—SAMUEL GRAFTON, I'd Rather Be Right

12. The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.—HORACE GREELEY
    

13. This bank-note world.—FITZ-GREENE HALLECK, Alnwick Castle
    

14. Never ask of money spent
    Where the spender thinks it went.
    Nobody was ever meant
    To remember or invent
    What he did with every cent.—ROBERT FROST, The Hardship of Accounting
    

15. In order to make money the first thing is to have no need of it.—LUDOVIC HALEVY, The Abbe Constantin
    

16. Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.—O. W. HOLMES, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
    

17. How pleasant it is to have money!—A. H. CLOUGH, Dipsychus
    

18. Get money; still get money, boy,
    No matter by what means.—BEN JONSON, Every Man in His Humour
    

19. The love of pelf increases with the pelf.—JUVENAL, Satires
    

20. It's money I want, or rather the things money will buy; and I can never possibly have too much. As to living on practically nothing, I propose to do as little of that as I possibly can. It's the feed not the breed that makes the man. More money means more life to me. The habit of getting money will never become one of my vices, but the habit of spending money, ah God! I shall always be its victim. If cash comes with fame, come, fame; if cash comes without fame, then come cash.—JACK LONDON
    

21. It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.—GEORGE H. LORIMER
    

22. If a man runs after money, he's money-mad; if he keeps it he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a play­boy; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it, he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life-time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.—VIC OLIVER
    

23. How little you know about the age you live in if you fancy that honey is sweeter than cash in hand.—OVID, Fasti
    

24. This morning came home my fine camlet cloak, with gold buttons, and a silk suit, which cost me much money, and I pray God to make me able to pay for it.—SAMUEL PEPYS, Diary
    

25. For without money, George,
    A man is but a beast:
    But bringing money, thou shalt be
    Always my welcome guest.—THOMAS PERCY, George Barnwell
    

26. Money in purse will be always in fashion.—Proverb
    

27. Talk is but talk; but 'tis money that buys land.—Proverb
    

28. Ready money is ready medicine.—Proverb
    

29. Money is often lost for want of money.—Proverb

30. Money is the best bait to fish for men with.—Proverb
    

31. Money, like manure, does no good till it is spread.—Proverb
    

32. Money makes not so many true friends as real enemies.—Proverb
    

33. If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.—Proverb
    

34. He that shews his purse, longs to be rid of it.—Proverb
    

35. He that gets money before he gets wit,
    Will be but a short while master of it.—Proverb
    

36. A fool and his money are soon parted.—Proverb
    

37. Money alone sets all the world in motion.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae
    

38. Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.—ROUSSEAU, A Discourse on Political Economy
    

39. Remuneration! O! that's the Latin word for three farthings.—SHAKESPEARE, Love's Labour's Lost
    

40. Put money in thy purse.—SHAKESPEARE, Othello
    

41. Nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal.—SHAKESPEARE, The Taming of the Shrew
    

42. The pursuit of women is impossible without pocket money.—BERNARD SHAW
    

43. Hector: Shall I turn up the light for you?
    Capt. Shotover: No. Give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.—BERNARD SHAW, Heartbreak House
    

44. Money talks: money prints: money broadcasts: money reigns; and kings and labor leaders alike have to register its decrees, and even, by a staggering paradox, to finance its enterprises and guarantee its profits.—BERNARD SHAW, The Apple Cart: Preface
    

45. What money should be—and what any honest money system should try to make it—is just this: a debt owed by the community in exchange for actual goods or services delivered to the community and exchangeable at some later date for an equivalent value of goods or services.—R. D. SKINNER, Seven Kinds of Inflation
    

46. Let all the learned say what they can,
    'Tis ready money makes the man.—WILLIAM SOMERVILLE, Ready Money
    

47. For money you would sell your soul.—SOPHOCLES, Antigone
    

48. Ah, search the wide world wherever you can,
    There is no open door for the money-less man!—H. T. STANTON, The Moneyless Man
    

49. 'Tis as cheap sitting as standing.—SWIFT, Polite Conversation
    

50. No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.—SWIFT

51. But the jingling of the guinea Ips the hurt that Honour feels.—TENNYSON, Locksley Hall
    

52. If you have money, it doth not stay,
    But this way and that it wastes amain:
    What does it profit you, anyway?
    Ill- gotten good is nobody's gain.—VILLON, The Greater Testament