MONEY QUOTES IV

quotations about money

Money quote

Money is everywhere. For some it is everything. For all it is necessary.

GEORG SIMMEL

The Philosophy of Money


The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

CHARLES DICKENS

"Our Parish", Sketches by Boz

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Everybody needs money. That's why it's called "money".

DANNY DEVITO

Heist


You will either tell your money what to do or the lack of it will always manage you.

DAVE RAMSEY

daily tip, official website

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Even money, which shines so much, spits sometimes.

FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA

Blood Wedding

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A dowried wife, friends, beauty, birth, fair fame,
These are the gifts of money, heavenly dame:
Be but a moneyed man, persuasion tips
Your tongue, and Venus settles on your lips.

HORACE

Epistles

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I'll acquaint you with the first ironclad rule of the enormously wealthy: Never spend one's own money.

MARK FROST

The List of Seven

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The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvellous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven. Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!

HERMAN MELVILLE

Moby Dick

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Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things. He gave it a chance. He even provided a first instalment of funds. Can you beat that? It's so magnificent. God despises nothing. After all, if the deal had come off, Judas would probably have endowed sanatoriums, hospitals, public libraries or laboratories.

GEORGES BERNANOS

The Diary of a Country Priest

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Every man's credit is proportioned to the money which he has in his chest.

JUVENAL

Satires

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Money can buy you a house, but can't buy you a home.

LEROY BAILEY JR.

"We Need God", June 14, 2007


Generally, money lies nearest them that are nearest their graves.

WILLIAM PENN

Some Fruits of Solitude

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No city, however massively fortified, is impregnable to a mule carrying chests of gold coins.

K. J. PARKER

Devices and Desires

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The purse strings tie us to our kind.

WALTER BAGEHOT

Literary Studies

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No man's credit is as good as his money.

EDGAR WATSON HOWE

Country Town Sayings

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There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is to enjoy earning it.

EDGAR WATSON HOWE

Country Town Sayings

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Money is a sign of poverty.

IAIN M. BANKS

The State of the Art

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Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress.

FRANCIS BACON

De Augmentis Scientiarum

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Money in the hands of one or two men is like a dungheap in a barnyard. So long as it lies in a mass, it does no good; but, if it is only spread out evenly on the land, everything will grow.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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What is not exchanged for money is in the same state with respect to the money, as if it did not exist.

KARL MARX

Collected Works of Karl Marx

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