quotations about money
Money often costs too much.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
The Conduct of Life
Money is freedom. Money is a private plane. Money is no metal detection.
50 CENT
Esquire, January 2010
Money spent withdraws its charm.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
If you wish to test a friend loan him money.
LEWIS F. KORNS
Thoughts
Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
Discourse on Inequality
In matters of money there's no such thing as enough.
JEAN ANOUILH
Thieves' Carnival
It's easy to clean up when you got money.
J. F. LAWTON
Pretty Woman
Money is like water in a leaky bucket: no sooner there, it begins to drip.
JOHN UPDIKE
Rabbit is Rich
One just spends as much money as one has. Very peculiar that! You never actually have any money. You think, If I had this much money ten years ago, I would have thought I was amazingly rich, but I still manage to spend it all and not have any left.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
The Paris Review, winter 1997
The wealthy seldom possess wealth: oftener they are possessed by it.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts
Money doesn't talk, it swears obscenity.
BOB DYLAN
"It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)"
Powerful to alleviate, to delay, to camouflage, though money is, in the end it lets us down.
CARYLL HOUSELANDER
The Reed of God
No matter how successful a relationship may be, both sexually and emotionally, the lack of money can hamper and undermine, little by little, even the greatest passion.
LAURA ESQUIVEL
Swift as Desire
Money is the source of the greatest vice, and that nation which is most rich, is most wicked.
FRANCES BURNEY
The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney
Money is like any other virus: once it has rotted the soul of the person who houses it, it sets off in search of new blood.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON
The Shadow of the Wind
You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Money ... is the symbol of duty, it is the sacrament of having done for mankind that which mankind wanted. Mankind may not be a very good judge, but there is no better.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Erewhon
A group of politicians want to replace the dollar bill with a coin. Rappers would be out of business. You can't make it rain with coins. People would get hurt. Strippers would have to wear fanny packs. You can't fill up a thong with coins. Get rid of the penny. If it's not worth bending over for, it's not worth making.
JIMMY KIMMEL
Jimmy Kimmel Live!, September 2011
Money is an agreement within a community to use something as a medium of exchange.
BERNARD LIETAER
The Future of Money
Top 15 Things Money Can't Buy: Time. Happiness. Inner Peace. Integrity. Love. Character. Manners. Health. Respect. Morals. Trust. Patience. Class. Common sense. Dignity.
ROY T. BENNETT
The Light in the Heart