quotations about money
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
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
MARK TWAIN
Mark Twain's Notebook
Feelings about money -- saving and spending, holding back and letting go -- start very early in our lives. Stingy people have often been forced to give when they were very, very young, when they weren't ready. And generous people have often been really appreciated when they were very young.
FRED ROGERS
"Mister Rogers' Money Tips", The Motley Fool, January 20, 2006
Money is an agreement within a community to use something as a medium of exchange.
BERNARD LIETAER
The Future of Money
If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.
ENGLISH PROVERB
Love and money should properly have nothing to do with each other.
JOHN SAUL
Guardian
It is money, or rather the want of it, which makes men workers. It is the appetizing provocative that teases the business nerve of more than half the world; while most of the results of ingenuity, skill, intellect, tact, address, and competition, depend upon its unremitting pursuit. Want of money is the great principle of moral gravitation, the only power that is strong enough to keep things in their places. It is this scantiness of means, this continual deficiency, this constant hitch, this perpetual struggle to keep the head above water and the wolf from the door, that keeps society from falling to pieces. Let every man in the community have, as a rule, a few dollars more than he wants, and anarchy would follow.
WILLIAM MATHEWS
"Money--Its Use and Abuse", Hints on Success in Life
Powerful to alleviate, to delay, to camouflage, though money is, in the end it lets us down.
CARYLL HOUSELANDER
The Reed of God
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 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
The wealthy seldom possess wealth: oftener they are possessed by it.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts
In matters of money there's no such thing as enough.
JEAN ANOUILH
Thieves' Carnival
Money is an information system we use to deploy human effort.
MICHAEL LINTON
attributed, Money: Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender
The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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
Money is like water in a leaky bucket: no sooner there, it begins to drip.
JOHN UPDIKE
Rabbit is Rich
Endless money forms the sinews of war.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
Philippics
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 was invented to spend.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON
Dune: House Harkonnen
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