Money Quotes



There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1824) Anglo-American essayist.

Ready money is Aladdin’s lamp.
Lord Farquhar (1678-1824) English poet.

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.
George Farquhar (1678-1707) Irish dramatist.

Money is a singular thing. it ranks with love as man’s greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Money differs from an automobile, a mistress or cancer in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.
John Kenneth Galbraith (b.1908) American economist.

If you would like to know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, writer.

The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five.
W.Somerset Maugham (18741966) British author.

They who are of the opinion that money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for money.

The want of money is the root of all evil.
Samuel Butler (1835-1902) English author.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.
Anthony Burgess (b.1917) British author.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Woody Allen (b.1935) American filmmaker.

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.
Horace.

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
O.W.Holmes.

Money is a good servant, but a poor master.
D.Bouhours.

A wise man should have money in his head, not in his heart.
Swift.

Make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.
Fielding.

All love has something of blindness in it, but the love of money especially.
South.

The value of a dollar is to buy just things; a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and all the virtue of the world. A dollar in a university is worth more than a dollar in a jail; in a temperate, schooled, law abiding community, than in some sink of crime, where dice, knives, and arsenic are in constant play.
Emerson.

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.
Bacon.

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, if doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, reply upon it; “Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith”.
Franklin.

By doing good with money, a man, as it were, stamps the image of God upon it, and makes it pass current for the merchandise of heaven.
J.Rutledge.

Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.
J.Wesley.

Money spent on myself may be a millstone about my neck; money spent on others may give me wings like the angels.
R.D.Hitchcock.

When money represents so many things, not to love it would be to love nearly nothing. To forget true needs can by only a weak moderation; but to know the value of money and to sacrifice it always, maybe to duty, maybe even to delicacy, that is real virtue.
Senancour.

The philosophy which affects to teach us a contempt of money does not run very deep.
Henry Taylor.

He that wants money, means, and content, is without three good friends.
Shakespeare.

Men are seldom more innocently employed than when they are honestly making money.
Johnson.

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