MONEY QUOTES
quotations about money
A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
YOGI BERRA
When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
WOODY ALLEN
Without Feathers
Money is the root of all evil.
BIBLE
1 Timothy 6:10
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some; for he that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanac
Money is therefore not only the object but also the fountainhead of greed.
KARL MARX
Grundrisse
Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for. I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Little Women
Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
G. K. CHESTERTON
The Paradise of Thieves
Money makes the man.
ARISTODEMUS
fragment
Money ... those who don't have enough of it are only aware of what it can buy them. When you finally have enough of it you become aware--acutely aware--of all the things it can't buy ... the really important things ... like youth, health, love, peace of mind.
F. PAUL WILSON
The Tomb
Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE
attributed, The Ultimate Book of Quotations
Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.
D. H. LAWRENCE
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity.
W. H. AUDEN
"A Poet of the Actual", Forewords and Afterwords
Few men have virtue enough to withstand the highest bidder.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
attributed, Wit and Wisdom of the American Presidents: A Book of Quotations
Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
TED TURNER
attributed, The Quotable Billionaire
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.
BARACK OBAMA
speech, July 12, 2006
When some people talk about money
They speak as if it were a mysterious lover
Who went out to buy milk and never
Came back, and it makes me nostalgic
For the years I lived on coffee and bread,
Hungry all the time, walking to work on payday
Like a woman journeying for water
From a village without a well, then living
One or two nights like everyone else
On roast chicken and wine.
TRACY K. SMITH
"The Good Life"
Las Vegas is the only place I know where money really talks--it says, "Goodbye."
FRANK SINATRA
The Joker Is Wild
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
DOROTHY PARKER
Complete Stories
Money enhances a man, yes, as beauty enhances a woman.
LEONA HELMSLEY
Playboy, November 1990