Samuel Butler (novelist) - Money Quotes

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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money — or the want of money; but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.

Samuel Butler
It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

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Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.

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I heard a man say that brigands demand your money or your life, whereas women require both.

Samuel Butler
Whether the universe is really a paying concern, or whether it is an inflated bubble that must burst sooner or later, this is another matter. If people were to demand cash payment in irrefragable certainty for everything that they have taken hitherto as paper money on the credit of the bank of public opinion, is there money enough behind it all to stand so great a drain even on so great a reserve?

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It is said of money that it is more easily made than kept and this is true of many things, such as friendship; and even life itself is more easily got than kept.

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It is curious that money, which is the most valuable thing in life, exceptis excipiendis, should be the most fatal corrupter of music, literature, painting and all the arts. As soon as any art is pursued with a view to money, then farewell, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, all hope of genuine good work.

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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

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We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.

Samuel Butler