MONEY QUOTES V

quotations about 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 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


Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress.

FRANCIS BACON

De Augmentis Scientiarum

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

JUVENAL

Satires

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Be your money's master, not its slave.

PUBLILIUS SYRUS

Maxims

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

CROFT M. PENTZ

The Complete Book of Zingers


Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.

PAUL NEWMAN

Paul Newman: A Life in Pictures

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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


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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Under the ideal measure of values there lurks the hard cash.

KARL MARX

Das Kapital

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Money is the devil's eye.

ROMANIAN PROVERB


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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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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Having money is a way of being free of money.

ALBERT CAMUS

A Happy Death

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If we could let go of our faith in money, who knows what we might put in its place?

LEWIS H. LAPHAM

Money and Class in America

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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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