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Money is the seal and stamp of success.
D. H. LAWRENCE, Lady Chatterley's Lover
You put a wage behind something, it gives the act a sort of respectability.
PATRICK DEWITT, The Sisters Brothers
The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvellous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven. Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!
HERMAN MELVILLE, Moby Dick
No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.
LARRY MCMURTRY, Some Can Whistle
Money talks. If it's the dollar, it's small talk.
CROFT M. PENTZ, The Complete Book of Zingers
Big money isn't hard to come by. All it costs is a lifetime of single-minded devotion to acquiring it and making it grow into more money.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN, Stranger in a Strange Land
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!, Sep. 2011
Stripped of ideals, mere money making is among the coarsest of occupations.
Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things. He gave it a chance. He even provided a first instalment of funds. Can you beat that? It's so magnificent. God despises nothing. After all, if the deal had come off, Judas would probably have endowed sanatoriums, hospitals, public libraries or laboratories.
GEORGES BERNANOS, The Diary of a Country Priest
Money spent withdraws its charm.
The wealthy seldom possess wealth: oftener they are possessed by it.
Money in the hands of one or two men is like a dungheap in a barnyard. So long as it lies in a mass, it does no good; but, if it is only spread out evenly on the land, everything will grow.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of it, is this--they throw it away as soon as they get it on the first whim or extravagance that strikes them, and have nothing left to meet ordinary expenses or discharge old debts.
WILLIAM HAZLITT, Characteristics
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
If you wish to test a friend loan him money.
Generally, money lies nearest them that are nearest their graves.
WILLIAM PENN, Some Fruits of Solitude
Money talks. Mine is always saying "Spend me!"
TOM WILSON, Ziggy, Nov. 6, 1999
Money, like a running horse, should be kept--well-in-hand.
Money is the devil's eye.
Money is a sort of instinct. It's a sort of property of nature in a man to make money. It's nothing you do. It's no trick you play. It's a sort of permanent accident of your own nature; once you start, you make money, and you go on ... But you've got to begin ... You've got to get in. You can do nothing if you are kept outside. You've got to beat your way in. Once you've done that, you can't help it!
D. H. LAWRENCE, Lady Chatterley's Lover
I read that yesterday, the Mexican peso hit its lowest point since March of 2009. In fact, things got so bad, it was seen leaving a bar with the American dollar.
JIMMY FALLON, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Sep. 23, 2011
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
Money was invented to spend.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Harkonnen
Money is like water in a leaky bucket: no sooner there, it begins to drip.
JOHN UPDIKE, Rabbit is Rich
- How many times have you heard someone say
- If I had his money I'd do things my way
- Hmm, but little they know
- Hmm, it's so hard to find
- One rich man in ten with a satisfied mind.
BOB DYLAN, "A Satisfied Mind"
All my money is tied up in Skee ball tickets.
JIMMY KIMMEL, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Aug. 4, 2011
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