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
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, 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
Money is like water in a leaky bucket: no sooner there, it begins to drip.
JOHN UPDIKE
Rabbit is Rich
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
The wealthy seldom possess wealth: oftener they are possessed by it.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts
Rule No. 1: Never lose money.
Rule No. 2: Never forget rule No. 1.
WARREN BUFFET
The Tao of Warren Buffet
Money spent withdraws its charm.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
Stripped of ideals, mere money making is among the coarsest of occupations.
LEWIS F. KORNS
Thoughts
In matters of money there's no such thing as enough.
JEAN ANOUILH
Thieves' Carnival
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
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
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
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
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
Money and goods are certainly the best of references.
CHARLES DICKENS
Our Mutual Friend
Money is an information system we use to deploy human effort.
MICHAEL LINTON
attributed, Money: Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender