Quotes & anectdotes from the wise, the foolish, the courageous & the drunk

money

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

Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money. 6 wisdom & wit 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 wisdom & wit from Joseph Campbell

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

It's a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money's worth. 2 other 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 other views from Robert Frost

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

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

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

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it. 17 other wisdom & wit from Tennessee Williams

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

For I can raise no money by vile means. 81 more quotes 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 other thoughts from Josh Billings

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

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

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves. 42 other wisdom & wit from Josh Billings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go. 42 other wisdom & wit from Josh Billings

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

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

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

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science. 33 thoughts 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 more thoughts 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 other quotes 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 other thoughts 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 quotes from Harvey Milk

Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory. 11 quotes 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 wisdom & wit 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 views from Moshe Dayan

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. 5 views 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 other quotes from Karl Marx

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it. 52 thoughts 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 quotes from Horace Mann

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

All money is a matter of belief. 9 more views from Adam Smith

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine. 53 other 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 thoughts from Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful. 53 thoughts 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 quotes from Judy Garland

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go. 3 more thoughts from Margaret Walker

I have ways of making money that you know nothing of. 10 quotes 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 other quotes 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 quotes 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 views from Dave Barry

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

Money is a poor man's credit card. 19 thoughts 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 views from Henry Ford

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

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. 117 other views 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 other quotes from Henry Ford

That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'. 3 sayings 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 sayings 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 sayings from Henry Ford

The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets. 10 more sayings from John D. Rockefeller

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either. 4 more sayings 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 more wisdom & wit from Henry David Thoreau

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

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

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

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

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

Marriage, like money, is still with us and, like money, progressively devalued. 4 sayings 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 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 sayings 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 more views from Ogden Nash

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

I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18. 5 wisdom & wit 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 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 views 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 more quotes from Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

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

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

Wealth flows from energy and ideas. 22 sayings 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 views from Samuel Goldwyn

A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket. 6 quotes 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 more quotes 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 other wisdom & wit from Kin Hubbard

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency. 90 views 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 views from Samuel Johnson

I'm hopeless with money I simply spend what I've got. 6 more wisdom & wit from Freddie Mercury

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

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

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

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

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money. 63 wisdom & wit 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 thoughts from Cesare Pavese

Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it. 27 other views from Kin Hubbard

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money. 29 sayings 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 quotes from Mahalia Jackson

Money just draws flies. 13 more wisdom & wit from Mahalia Jackson

Money without brains is always dangerous. 28 wisdom & wit from Napoleon Hill

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

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

When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes. 15 more 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 other wisdom & wit from Oscar Wilde

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

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

A fool and his money are soon elected. 57 quotes 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 quotes from Clarence Day

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

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

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need. 57 wisdom & wit 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 other quotes from Hedy Lamarr

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

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it. 98 quotes 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 quotes from Hedy Lamarr

If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses. 10 other views 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 other sayings 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 thoughts from Albert Camus

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. 52 more wisdom & wit 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 other views from Will Rogers

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have. 57 other thoughts 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 wisdom & wit 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 wisdom & wit from Louisa May Alcott

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

The lack of money is the root of all evil. 98 more wisdom & wit from Mark Twain

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

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

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

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

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

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

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still. 10 other 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 wisdom & wit from Samuel Butler

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

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

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

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

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

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

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. 23 views 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 other quotes from Walt Disney

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

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

In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money. 6 more views 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 other wisdom & wit 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 thoughts from George Santayana

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

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money. 68 quotes 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 thoughts from Carter G. Woodson

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

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

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

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

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

You reach a point where you don't work for money. 23 wisdom & wit from Walt Disney

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

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

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

A fool and her money are soon courted. 23 wisdom & wit from Helen Rowland

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

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

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

Almost anyone can be an author the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being. 5 views 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 views from Evan Esar

Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money. 2 views 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 thoughts from George Burns

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

I can't afford to die I'd lose too much money. 21 more thoughts 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 other quotes from Elvis Presley

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

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

It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money. 24 other wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Benjamin Franklin

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

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread. 67 thoughts 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 views 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 wisdom & wit 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 quotes 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 more quotes from E. M. Forster

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

Remember that credit is money. 96 quotes from Benjamin Franklin

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

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it. 96 more wisdom & wit from Benjamin Franklin

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

Time is money. 96 thoughts 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 quotes 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 other quotes from Moliere

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. 6 other wisdom & wit from Jules Renard

Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets. 4 views 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 wisdom & wit from Loretta Young

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money. 45 other 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 wisdom & wit from Lana Turner

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots! 29 quotes 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 wisdom & wit from Sonny Bono

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

If the money's right, I'll do a film. 5 thoughts 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 other wisdom & wit 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 quotes from W. H. Auden

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason. 24 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 wisdom & wit 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 thoughts from Ayn Rand

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. 24 quotes 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 sayings 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 quotes from Brendan Behan

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

The thing that differentiates man from animals is money. 31 quotes 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 more views from Havelock Ellis

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