MONEY QUOTES V

quotations about money

Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Seditions and Troubles", Essays

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Well, there's one thing to be said for money. It can make you rich.

TOM ROBBINS

Jitterbug Perfume

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Money is an artificial, social convention. lf for any reason a substance begins to be used as money, all people will begin to value it ... as long as things can be bought and sold for a given substance, people will be content to sell and buy with it.

PAUL SAMUELSON

attributed, Changing Face of Money


Like water to the fish, money is the primary medium within which we live our economic lives.

THOMAS GRECO

Money: Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender


Money talks. If it's the dollar, it's small talk.

CROFT M. PENTZ

The Complete Book of Zingers


Be your money's master, not its slave.

PUBLILIUS SYRUS

Maxims

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Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.

PAUL NEWMAN

Paul Newman: A Life in Pictures

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I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

ROMAIN ROLLAND

attributed, The Anchor Book of French Quotations

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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

APHRA BEHN

The Rover

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Money is such a powerful symbol in American culture that people must take some stance in relation to it. They can save it for a rainy day, let it burn a hole in their pocket, use it to keep up with the Joneses, throw it away, neither borrow nor lend it, or turn their back on it altogether. Whatever they do, they must reckon with the idea of money as well as with however much or little money they happen to have.

ELIZABETH STONE

Black Sheep and Kissing Cousins: How Our Family Stories Shape Us


The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933

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Money ... is like a beautiful thoroughbred horse--very powerful & always in action, but unless this horse is trained when very young, it will be an out-of-control & dangerous animal when it grows to maturity.

DAVE RAMSEY

Financial Peace Revisited

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When I had money, money, O!
I knew no joy till I went poor;
For many a false man as a friend
Came knocking all day at my door.

WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

Money

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I guess money can't buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places.

NORA ROBERTS

Tribute

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All the illusions in regard to the monetary system are due to the fact that money is not regarded as something representing a social relation of production, but as a product of nature endowed with certain properties. The modern economists who sneer at the illusions of the monetary system, betray the same illusion as soon as they have to deal with higher economic forms, as, e.g., capital. It breaks forth in their confession of naïve surprise, when what they have just thought to have defined with great difficulty as a thing suddenly appears as a social relation and then reappears to tease them again as a thing, before they have barely managed to define it as a social relation.

KARL MARX

A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy

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Money is the devil's eye.

ROMANIAN PROVERB


Money attracts because it gives us the means to command the labor and service and finally the lives of others--human or otherwise.

EDWARD ABBEY

The Serpents of Paradise

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The Management of money is, in much, the management of self. If heaven allotted to each man seven guardian angels, five of them, at least, would be found night and day hovering over his pockets.

EDWARD BULWER LYTTON

Caxtoniana

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It is against nature for money to beget money.

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Usury", The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral

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I don't like dealing with money transactions in poor countries. I get confused between the feeling that I shouldn't haggle with poverty and getting ripped off.

ALEX GARLAND

The Beach

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