MONEY QUOTES VIII

quotations about money

You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it.

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Tags: Tennessee Williams


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

Tags: Jeanette Winterson


Money, which represents the prose of life, and is hardly spoken of in parlors without apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

"Nominalist and Realist", Essays

Tags: Ralph Waldo Emerson


Money is like water in a leaky bucket: no sooner there, it begins to drip.

JOHN UPDIKE

Rabbit is Rich

Tags: John Updike


Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

Discourse on Inequality

Tags: Jean Jacque Rousseau


The wealthy seldom possess wealth: oftener they are possessed by it.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts

Tags: Ivan Panin


Rule No. 1: Never lose money.
Rule No. 2: Never forget rule No. 1.

WARREN BUFFET

The Tao of Warren Buffet

Tags: Warren Buffett


Money spent withdraws its charm.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

Tags: Edward Counsel


Stripped of ideals, mere money making is among the coarsest of occupations.

LEWIS F. KORNS

Thoughts

Tags: Lewis F. Korns


In matters of money there's no such thing as enough.

JEAN ANOUILH

Thieves' Carnival

Tags: Jean Anouilh


Money ... is the symbol of duty, it is the sacrament of having done for mankind that which mankind wanted. Mankind may not be a very good judge, but there is no better.

SAMUEL BUTLER

Erewhon


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

Tags: Sophocles


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

Tags: Carlos Ruiz Zafon


A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.

ALBERT CAMUS

The Myth of Sisyphus

Tags: Albert Camus


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

Tags: Charles Edward Jerningham


Top 15 Things Money Can't Buy: Time. Happiness. Inner Peace. Integrity. Love. Character. Manners. Health. Respect. Morals. Trust. Patience. Class. Common sense. Dignity.

ROY T. BENNETT

The Light in the Heart


Money is an agreement within a community to use something as a medium of exchange.

BERNARD LIETAER

The Future of Money


Endless money forms the sinews of war.

MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO

Philippics

Tags: Cicero


Money and goods are certainly the best of references.

CHARLES DICKENS

Our Mutual Friend

Tags: Charles Dickens


Money is an information system we use to deploy human effort.

MICHAEL LINTON

attributed, Money: Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender