Money Quotes

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Very many people spend money in ways quite different from those that their natural tastes would enjoin, merely because the respect of their neighbors depends upon their possession of a good car and their ability to give good dinners. As a matter of fact, any man who can obviously afford a car but genuinely prefers travels or a good library will in the end be much more respected than if he behaved exactly like everyone else.

Bertrand Russell

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Benjamin Franklin

Governments create nothing and have nothing to give but what they have first taken away — you may put money in the pockets of one set of Englishmen, but it will be money taken from the pockets of another set of Englishmen, and the greater part will be spilled on the way. Every vote given for Protection is a vote to give Governments the right of robbing Peter to pay Paul and charging the public a handsome commission on the job.

Winston Churchill

For I don't care too much for money,
For money can't buy me love.

The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of wealth and honour, and to leave none to your successors, because you have neither money nor reputation of your own, is alike base and dishonourable.

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Money, which represents the prose in life, and which is hardly mentioned in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Private fortunes, in the present state of our circulation, are at the mercy of those self-created money lenders, and are prostrated by the floods of nominal money with which their avarice deluges us.

Thomas Jefferson

Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.

G. K. Chesterton

This is no time to lend money, especially upon bare friendship without security.

William Shakespeare

I went to the circus, and loafed around the back side till the watchman went by, and then dived in under the tent. I had my twenty-dollar gold piece and some other money, but I reckoned I better save it.... I ain't opposed to spending money on circuses, when there ain't no other way, but there ain't no use in wasting it on them.

I'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody. The people that do all the sculptures and paintings for big building construction. We never hear about them, but they make more money than anybody.

I had been in London innumerable times, and yet till that day I had never noticed one of the worst things about London-the fact that it costs money even to sit down.

The value of money is in proportion to the quantity of the necessaries of life which it will purchase.

Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money.

Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is my great misfortune that I have to measure your love by the money gifts you give for Daridranarayana.

The truth is, there is money buried everywhere, and you have only to go to work to find it.

Henry David Thoreau

Money and goods are certainly the best of references.

Charles Dickens

The thief steals from himself. The swindler swindles himself. For the real price is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. These signs, like paper money, may be counterfeited or stolen, but that which they represent, namely, knowledge and virtue, cannot be counterfeited or stolen.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we choose an external marker as the measure of our inner worth, whether it is the amount of money we make, or others' opinion of us, or the success of some project we're involved in, sooner or later we're bound to be battered by life's inevitable changes. After all, money comes and goes, and thus is an unstable source of self-esteem, an unreliable foundation upon which to build our identity.

Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

I don't care about the money. I just want to be wonderful.

Sometimes quoted as: I'm not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.

I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of.

It isn't worth it. No money is worth this... [walks out].

Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.