quotations about money
We ought not to have more use and esteem of money and coin than of stones. And the devil seeks to blind those who desire or value it more than stones. Let us therefore take care lest after having left all things we lose the kingdom of heaven for such a trifle. And if we should chance to find money in any place, let us no more regard it than the dust we tread under our feet.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
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First Rule of the Friars Minor
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
When we lavish our money we rob our heir; when we merely save it we rob ourselves.
JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE
"Of the Gifts of Fortune", Les Caractères
In matters of money there's no such thing as enough.
JEAN ANOUILH
Thieves' Carnival
Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
SOPHOCLES
fragment, The Sons of Aleus
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
Each of us, with money, gets further and further away from those moments where the hand pulls the beet root from the soil, shakes the fish from the net into the basket -- not to mention the way it separates us from one another, so that when enough money comes between people, they lie apart like parts of a chicken hacked up for stewing.
SAMUEL R. DELANY
Neverÿon
If you wish to test a friend loan him money.
LEWIS F. KORNS
Thoughts
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
The wealthy seldom possess wealth: oftener they are possessed by it.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts
Money is freedom. Money is a private plane. Money is no metal detection.
50 CENT
Esquire, January 2010
When money talks, nobody cares what kind of grammar it uses.
ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES
Poems and Paragraphs
How beauteous are rouleaus! how charming chests
Containing ingots, bags of dollars, coins
(Not of old victors, all whose heads and crests
Weigh not the thin ore where their visage shines,
But) of fine unclipt gold, where dully rests
Some likeness, which the glittering cirque confines,
Of modern, reigning, sterling, stupid stamp;--
Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.
LORD BYRON
Don Juan
Money is an agreement within a community to use something as a medium of exchange.
BERNARD LIETAER
The Future of Money
Money is an information system we use to deploy human effort.
MICHAEL LINTON
attributed, Money: Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender
A man can no more make money suddenly and largely, and be unharmed by it, than one could suddenly grow from a child's stature to a man's without harm.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
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
It's easy to clean up when you got money.
J. F. LAWTON
Pretty Woman
Money doesn't talk, it swears obscenity.
BOB DYLAN
"It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)"
We insist that "money is the root of all evil," and behave as if it were the source of all good.
CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM
The Maxims of Marmaduke