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There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money – and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.

Oswald Spengler

I can do as much work as any man... We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much. What we want is a little money. You men know that you get as much again as women when you write, or for what you do. When we get our rights, we shall not have to come to you for money, for then we shall have money enough of our own.

Sojourner Truth

Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.

What counts is what you do with your money, not where it came from.

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

Norman O. Brown

A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time, labour, and money in providing for translation services.

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.

Chester A. Arthur

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

William Makepeace Thackeray

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.

The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there.

Carter G. Woodson

What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, but votes.

James L. Buckley

Now there was a young gentleman which had married a merchant's wife. And having a little wanton money, which him thought burned out the bottom of his purse, in the first year of his wedding took his wife with him and went over sea, for none other errand but to see Flanders and France and ride out one summer in those countries.

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

Theodore H. White

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Margaret Walker

Law Number I: The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money.

Norman R. Augustine

A fool and his words are soon parted; a man of genius and his money.

William Shenstone

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

There are evils, as someone has pointed out, that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever — money, for instance, or war.

A rise of wages from this cause will, indeed, be invariably accompanied by a rise in the price of commodities; but in such cases, it will be found that labour and all commodities have not varied in regard to each other, and that the variation has been confined to money.

The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea green boat,
They took some honey, and plenty of money,
Wrapped up in a five pound note.
The Owl looked up to the stars above,
And sang to a small guitar,
"O lovely Pussy! O Pussy my love,
What a beautiful Pussy you are,
You are,
You are!
What a beautiful Pussy you are!"

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

Joseph de Maistre

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practising it.