Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

money

A fool and his money are soon elected. 57 thoughts from Will Rogers

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health. 4 other sayings from Clarence Day

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. 19 other wisdom & wit from Jonathan Swift

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart. 19 quotes from Jonathan Swift

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need. 57 views from Will Rogers

American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook. 14 sayings from Hedy Lamarr

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard. 25 quotes from Will Durant

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it. 98 other thoughts from Mark Twain

I advise everybody not to save: spend your money. Most people save all their lives and leave it to somebody else. Money is to be enjoyed. 14 other sayings from Hedy Lamarr

If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses. 10 more wisdom & wit from Billy Sunday

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep. 57 wisdom & wit from Will Rogers

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another. 78 sayings from Voltaire

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. 52 other sayings from Albert Camus

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. 52 thoughts from Albert Camus

Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it. 57 more quotes from Will Rogers

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have. 57 sayings from Will Rogers

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes. 10 thoughts from Louisa May Alcott

One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money. 5 quotes from Indira Gandhi

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world. 10 more sayings from Louisa May Alcott

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. 57 quotes from Will Rogers

The lack of money is the root of all evil. 98 quotes from Mark Twain

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty. 39 views from Robert Louis Stevenson

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else. 13 views from Andrew Carnegie

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure. 25 more views from Will Durant

We have the best government that money can buy. 98 other quotes from Mark Twain

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. 78 wisdom & wit from Voltaire

People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography. 10 wisdom & wit from Robert Mapplethorpe

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still. 10 wisdom & wit from Billy Sunday

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it. 68 other views from Samuel Butler

Brigands demand your money or your life women require both. 68 other quotes from Samuel Butler

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does. 21 sayings from Jane Austen

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money. 23 wisdom & wit from Walt Disney

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. 68 quotes from Samuel Butler

I don't need the money, dear. I work for art. 3 other quotes from Maria Callas

I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money. 17 other sayings from Sammy Davis, Jr.

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. 23 other wisdom & wit from Henry Miller

I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true. 23 thoughts from Walt Disney

If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man. 12 quotes from J. Paul Getty

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. 12 quotes from J. Paul Getty

In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money. 6 wisdom & wit from Carter G. Woodson

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly. 68 thoughts from Samuel Butler

Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator. 46 quotes from George Santayana

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells. 12 thoughts from J. Paul Getty

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money. 68 wisdom & wit from Samuel Butler

The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there. 6 wisdom & wit from Carter G. Woodson

The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions. 68 other quotes from Samuel Butler

The want of money is the root of all evil. 68 sayings from Samuel Butler

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation. 68 more quotes from Samuel Butler

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich. 10 other sayings from Marlene Dietrich

We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms. 68 other quotes from Samuel Butler

What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent. 17 quotes from Sammy Davis, Jr.

You reach a point where you don't work for money. 23 other views from Walt Disney

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. 8 quotes from Stephen Leacock

A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money. 3 more thoughts from Everett Dirksen

A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into. 45 quotes from Thomas Fuller

A fool and her money are soon courted. 23 quotes from Helen Rowland

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money. 24 sayings from W. C. Fields

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. 30 more quotes from Virginia Woolf

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts. 6 other wisdom & wit from Aristotle Onassis

Almost anyone can be an author the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being. 5 quotes from A. A. Milne

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week. 6 quotes from Evan Esar

Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money. 2 quotes from J. Edgar Hoover

Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money. 45 more quotes from Thomas Fuller

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. 21 sayings from George Burns

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. 96 quotes from Benjamin Franklin

I can't afford to die I'd lose too much money. 21 quotes from George Burns

I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm singing now is what makes the money. 19 more views from Elvis Presley

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. 6 views from Aristotle Onassis

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some. 96 quotes from Benjamin Franklin

It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money. 24 other sayings from W. C. Fields

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants. 96 thoughts from Benjamin Franklin

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. 29 more quotes from W. Somerset Maugham

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread. 67 quotes from Francis Bacon

Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets. 29 views from W. Somerset Maugham

Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric. 19 more quotes from Anton Chekhov

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them. 30 thoughts from Virginia Woolf

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money. 10 quotes from Tertullian

Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course. 23 wisdom & wit from Helen Rowland

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys. 26 quotes from E. M. Forster

Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience. 12 quotes from Ludwig van Beethoven

Remember that credit is money. 96 other quotes from Benjamin Franklin

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it. 6 more sayings from Edith Wharton

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it. 96 sayings from Benjamin Franklin

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. 96 quotes from Benjamin Franklin

Time is money. 96 more quotes from Benjamin Franklin

What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief. 2 quotes from Sitting Bull

When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams. 19 more thoughts from Anton Chekhov

Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money. 15 quotes from Moliere

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. 6 sayings from Jules Renard

Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets. 4 sayings from Federico Fellini

When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry. 14 quotes from Loretta Young

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money. 45 quotes from John Ruskin

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. 6 sayings from Lana Turner

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots! 29 thoughts from Arthur Schopenhauer

Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it. 2 other quotes from Sonny Bono

I can make more generals, but horses cost money. 47 quotes from Abraham Lincoln

If the money's right, I'll do a film. 5 sayings from Oliver Reed

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. 21 more quotes from W. H. Auden

It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. 21 more quotes from W. H. Auden

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason. 24 more quotes from Ayn Rand

Money is always there but the pockets change it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money. 31 more quotes from Gertrude Stein

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. 24 more quotes from Ayn Rand

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. 24 thoughts from Ayn Rand

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. 24 quotes from Ayn Rand

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money? 24 views from Ayn Rand

The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less. 4 sayings from Brendan Behan

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none. 26 sayings from Charles Dickens

The thing that differentiates man from animals is money. 31 sayings from Gertrude Stein

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry. 16 thoughts from Havelock Ellis

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money? 12 views from John Barrymore

A woman's best protection is a little money of her own. 11 more quotes from Clare Boothe Luce

Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money. 6 sayings from Earl Warren

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave. 18 other wisdom & wit from Joseph Campbell

I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock. 16 quotes from Henny Youngman

If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come. 9 views from Lawrence Welk

It's a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money's worth. 2 quotes from George M. Humphrey

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market. 50 views from Robert Frost

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. 11 sayings from Clare Boothe Luce

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money. 27 other thoughts from James Madison

What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money. 16 more quotes from Henny Youngman

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it. 17 quotes from Tennessee Williams

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money. 9 more thoughts from Robert Collier

For I can raise no money by vile means. 81 more views from William Shakespeare

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money. 42 more quotes from Josh Billings

If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil. 5 more sayings from Henry Fielding

It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money. 42 views from Josh Billings

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves. 42 quotes from Josh Billings

Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail. 42 quotes from Josh Billings

Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet. 10 other views from Henry James

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations. 70 quotes from Thomas Jefferson

Never spend your money before you have earned it. 70 views from Thomas Jefferson

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones. 11 quotes from Nicolas Chamfort

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money. 70 thoughts from Thomas Jefferson

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm. 42 views from Josh Billings

Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go. 42 more views from Josh Billings

Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth. 9 more quotes from Anthony Trollope

What is there that money will not do? 9 quotes from Anthony Trollope

When it comes to money nobody should give up anything. 9 sayings from Anthony Trollope

A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his. 8 more quotes from Bobby Darin

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles. 135 other thoughts from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science. 33 more quotes from Thomas Huxley

Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted. 3 views from Richard Wagner

Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely. 33 other thoughts from Thomas Huxley

I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead. 2 wisdom & wit from Cornelius Vanderbilt

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet. 5 quotes from Theodore White

It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions. 3 more quotes from Harvey Milk

Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory. 11 wisdom & wit from Salvador Dali

Money often costs too much. 135 thoughts from Ralph Waldo Emerson

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. 24 views from James A. Baldwin

Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice. 5 quotes from Moshe Dayan

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. 5 sayings from Theodore White

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money. 21 quotes from Karl Marx

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it. 52 more quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time. 11 other sayings from Horace Mann

What counts is what you do with your money, not where it came from. 5 other views from Merton Miller

All money is a matter of belief. 9 other quotes from Adam Smith

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine. 53 quotes from Marilyn Monroe

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it. 58 wisdom & wit from Henry Ward Beecher

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it. 58 views from Henry Ward Beecher

I can live without money, but I cannot live without love. 7 more sayings from Judy Garland

I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful. 53 quotes from Marilyn Monroe

I've seen the ticket, and I still can't believe it. When I see the money, I hope I don't hit the floor. 7 more thoughts from Judy Garland

Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. 9 more sayings from Adam Smith

Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older. 10 other quotes from John Maynard Keynes

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent. 26 more quotes from Frank Lloyd Wright

No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money. 9 other quotes from Adam Smith

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future. 10 wisdom & wit from John Maynard Keynes

There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them. 21 more quotes from Mignon McLaughlin

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum. 59 quotes from Elbert Hubbard

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. 32 more quotes from Henry Ford

Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money. 2 views from Alfred Marshall

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. 117 more views from Henry David Thoreau

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go. 3 other wisdom & wit from Margaret Walker

I have ways of making money that you know nothing of. 10 more views from John D. Rockefeller

I'm tired of love I'm still more tired of rhyme but money gives me pleasure all the time. 6 views from Hilaire Belloc

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages. 32 views from Henry Ford

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money. 27 other sayings from Dave Barry

Lack of money is the root of all evil. 115 other quotes from George Bernard Shaw

Money is a poor man's credit card. 19 other views from Marshall McLuhan

Money is just the poor man's credit card. 19 other quotes from Marshall McLuhan

Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it. 32 thoughts from Henry Ford

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. 117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. 117 thoughts from Henry David Thoreau

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services. 32 thoughts from Henry Ford

That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'. 3 more quotes from Richard Armour

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. 19 views from Alexis de Tocqueville

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. 32 other views from Henry Ford

The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets. 10 wisdom & wit from John D. Rockefeller

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either. 4 views from Robert Graves

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving. 32 quotes from Henry Ford

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle. 117 thoughts from Henry David Thoreau

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money. 115 more quotes from George Bernard Shaw

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any. 115 thoughts from George Bernard Shaw

Work isn't to make money you work to justify life. 5 more sayings from Marc Chagall

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching. 9 more quotes from Satchel Paige

You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living. 12 more thoughts from Casey Stengel

Marriage, like money, is still with us and, like money, progressively devalued. 4 more quotes from Robert Graves

There is nothing so habit-forming as money. 18 more quotes from Don Marquis

We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with. 18 other thoughts from Don Marquis

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. 18 wisdom & wit from Andy Warhol

Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying then without money? 14 sayings from Ogden Nash

Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words. 16 thoughts from Samuel Goldwyn

I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18. 5 other quotes from Ingrid Bergman

If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it? 5 other wisdom & wit from Davy Crockett

If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work. 14 other quotes from Ogden Nash

Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker. 19 quotes from Percy Bysshe Shelley

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. 18 quotes from Andy Warhol

Spare no expense to save money on this one. 16 other quotes from Samuel Goldwyn

There are people who have money and people who are rich. 16 views from Coco Chanel

Wealth flows from energy and ideas. 22 more wisdom & wit from William Feather

Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing? 16 other quotes from Samuel Goldwyn

A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket. 6 wisdom & wit from Emil Zatopek

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head. 6 views from Emil Zatopek

And also there wasn't much money in television in those days anyhow. 4 more thoughts from Jim Henson

Bargain... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on. 27 quotes from Kin Hubbard

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency. 90 wisdom & wit from Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. 63 other quotes from Samuel Johnson

I'm hopeless with money I simply spend what I've got. 6 sayings from Freddie Mercury

It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves. 10 more quotes from Taylor Caldwell

It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary that money should love you. 27 other quotes from Kin Hubbard

Men make counterfeit money in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men. 13 sayings from Sydney J. Harris

Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it! 6 more quotes from Freddie Mercury

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money. 63 thoughts from Samuel Johnson

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. 63 other quotes from Samuel Johnson

No woman marries for money they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. 5 more quotes from Cesare Pavese

Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it. 27 wisdom & wit from Kin Hubbard

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. 60 quotes from H. L. Mencken

The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket. 27 quotes from Kin Hubbard

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money. 63 quotes from Samuel Johnson

When a fellow says, 'It ain't the money but the principle of the thing,' it's the money. 27 sayings from Kin Hubbard

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody. 4 sayings from Agatha Christie

A fool and his money are soon parted. 4 thoughts from Thomas Tusser

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment. 5 more sayings from Ray Kroc

Friendship and money: oil and water. 3 more wisdom & wit from Mario Puzo

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money. 29 more thoughts from Pablo Picasso

It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test. 13 thoughts from Mahalia Jackson

Money just draws flies. 13 other quotes from Mahalia Jackson

Money without brains is always dangerous. 28 more views from Napoleon Hill

No man's credit is as good as his money. 9 sayings from John Dewey

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody. 24 views from Adlai E. Stevenson

When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes. 15 other quotes from Desiderius Erasmus

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life now that I am old I know that it is. 100 quotes from Oscar Wilde

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. 4 other views from Thomas Wolfe

I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money. 13 sayings from Mahalia Jackson