“Surely there never was so evil a thing as money, which maketh cities into ruinous heaps, and banisheth men from their houses, and turneth their thoughts from good unto evil.”
— Sophocles, “Antigone.”
“Money: the cause of, and solution to, most of life’s problems.”
— The Inerrant Knight, paraphrasing Homer Simpson’s comment on beer.
“When a fellow says it hain’t the money but the principle o’ the thing, it’s th’ money.”
— Kin Hubbard, “Hoss Sense and Nonsense” (1926).
“Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn’t pretty and perfect. You can’t put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, “Diary.”
“There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either.”
— Robert Graves
“Seven Deadly Sins:
Wealth without work
Pleasure without conscience
Science without humanity
Knowledge without character
Politics without principle
Commerce without morality
Worship without sacrifice.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.”
— Voltaire
“If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.”
— Henry Fielding
“No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”
— Jesus, Matthew 6:24 (KJV).
“…existence has become an unreasoning, wild dance around the golden calf, a mad worship of God Mammon. In that dance and in that worship man has sacrificed all his finer qualities of the heart and soul — kindness and justice, honor and manhood, compassion and sympathy with his fellowman.”
— Alexander Berkman
“Few men have virtue enough to withstand the highest bidder.”
— George Washington
“He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“The lack of money is the root of all evil.”
— Mark Twain
“Why would some celebrity with money out the ying-yang boost clothes from a fancy Rodeo Drive store? They could just buy them and never feel the pinch. Were they just bored or what?”
— Lady Eve
“When I have money, I get rid of it quickly, lest it find a way into my heart.”
— John Wesley
“The taste of the wealthy in America is a subject for closer examination. Why would Mitt Romney’s wife Ann pay $900 for a ghastly t-shirt she could buy at Target in the reject bin for $9.95?”
— Mae Wellington
“This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn’t the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.”
― Douglas Adams, “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.”
“Money … is like a beautiful thoroughbred horse — very powerful & always in action, but unless this horse is trained when very young, it will be an out-of-control & dangerous animal when it grows to maturity.”
— Dave Ramsey
“The wealthy gentleman I worked for once bought up all the paintings in a small art gallery in SoHo without looking at them. $200,000 in art he didn’t care about. I asked him why he did this and he replied coldly, ‘to prove I can.’ After a moment, he added with a chuckle, ‘and it’ll make one hell of a dinner party story.’ “
— Anonymous
“I mean, part of the beauty of me is that I’m very rich. So if I need $600 million, I can put [together] $600 million myself.”
— Donald Trump
“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”
― Dorothy Parker [I’ve run this quote before, but it is one of my favorites.]
“Making money isn’t hard in itself… What’s hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one’s life to.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, “The Shadow of the Wind.”
“I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks. Got a fur sink. An electric dog polisher. A gasoline powered turtleneck sweater. And, of course, I bought some dumb stuff, too.”
― Steve Martin
“Money doesn’t talk, it swears obscenity.”
— Bob Dylan
“What good is money if it can’t inspire terror in your fellow man?”
— Montgomery Burns of “The Simpsons.”
“Got no checkbooks, got no banks. Still I’d like to express my thanks — I’ve got the sun in the mornin’ and the moon at night.”
― Irving Berlin, from his song.
“If you owe the bank $100 that’s your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that’s the bank’s problem.”
— J.P. Getty, the late wealthy oilman.
“With all the money my uncle embezzled over the years, it’s no surprise he lives in a gated community. But what is amazing, however, is that he somehow managed to get his own cell.”
― Jarod Kintz, “It Occurred to Me.”
“If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.”
— Author Unknown
“Money will buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail”
– Richard Friedman
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt
“If money didn’t exist, Wall Street would invent it.”
— Dr. Jess Richana
“What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.”
— Henry Youngman
“A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.”
— Yogi Berra
