MONEY QUOTES VI

quotations about money


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Money is the devil's eye.

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

CROFT M. PENTZ

The Complete Book of Zingers


The jingling of a fat purse always commands the world.

DAVID GERROLD

Under the Eye of God

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

NORA ROBERTS

Tribute

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But the merchant, if faithful to his principles, always employs his money reluctantly for any other purpose than that of augmenting itself.

ARISTOTLE

Politics

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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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Whatever you want must first be born in mind; nothing can come into the objective world that is not already in mind. Human beings have different wants and different ideals. While money in itself has no value except as it is employed as a medium of exchange, and to promote health, happiness and usefulness; hence, in the last analysis, money is an important factor in helping to bring into outward expression ideas and ideals, which are first born in mind.

WALTER MATTHEWS

"Money", Human Life from Many Angles


To despise money, one must have plenty of it.

CESARE PAVESE

This Business of Living, February 2, 1938

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Money, like a running horse, should be kept--well-in-hand.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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'Tis money that begets money.

THOMAS FULLER

Gnomologia

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Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex. You thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

JAMES BALDWIN

"The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy", Esquire, May 1961

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Be your money's master, not its slave.

PUBLILIUS SYRUS

Maxims

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Not teaching your kids about money is like not caring whether they eat. If they enter the world without financial knowledge, they will have a much harder go of it.

DONALD TRUMP

How to Get Rich

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Of what use is wealth to him who neither gives nor enjoys it? Riches are for the comfort of life, and not life for the accumulation of riches. There is no man more deserving of pity than he who spends his whole life amassing money, without making any use of it.

JAMES PLATT

Platt's Essays, vol. II


No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.

LARRY MCMURTRY

Some Can Whistle

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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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If I can acquire money and also keep myself modest and faithful and magnanimous, point out the way, and I will acquire it.

EPICTETUS

The Discourses of Epictetus with the Encheiridion and Fragments

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

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

"Nominalist and Realist", Essays

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