Quotes About Money

Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.

The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket.

Man Gone Down by Michael Thomas, a young writer originally from Boston who was now living and teaching in New York. Man Gone Down is another big, ambitious novel—about race, the American Dream, fatherhood, money, and love.

Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.

Money and success don't change people they merely amplify what is already there.

You can get your money and you put it in the bank, or you can put it in the youth. You can put it in our future.

If you live in a good neighborhood, you drive home and there's a bank. There's grocery stores and big houses - but no motels. What that tells you psychologically is you protect your money and buy good things for your family to eat in your nice big house.

Socialisten zijn mensen met gewetensbezwaren over het geld dat andere mensen verdienen. Zodra ze zelf wat verdienen: niet alleen geen gewetensbezwaren, maar ook nog niet eens tevreden.

Arthur P. Russell, who was vice president of the New Haven Railroad, and Charles Hiller Innes, commonly accredited as the Republican boss of Boston, and of course called "Charlie," were fairly close to the Northampton senator, and, according to the tradition of the day,{98} in a pinch Innes could deliver Coolidge's vote. Innes testified in 1919 that he received forty thousand dollars in three years from the New Haven Railroad.

The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

They must go out of the theatre with the strength they live by strengthened from looking upon some passion that could, whatever its chosen way of life, strike down an enemy, fill a long stocking with money or move a girl's heart.

He couldn't understand today. Who can? How can you pay a man a hundred thousand dollars a year to hit a baseball or put a basketball though a hoop—and pay a teacher only twelve thousand a year to teach a kid to become a citizen? Is that waste? Give it some thought.

Love lasteth long as the money endureth.

As to the power which money gives, it is that of brute force, it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet, and of the bribed press, tongue and pen.

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

Any book without a mistake in it has had too much money spent on it.

Curst be the Gold and Silver which persuade Weak Men to follow far-fatiguing Trade! The Lilly-Peace outshines the silver Store, And Life is dearer than the golden Ore. Yet Money tempts us o'er the Desert brown, To ev'ry distant Mart and wealthy Town: Full oft we tempt the Land and Sea; And are we only yet repay'd by Thee? Ah! why was Ruin so attractive made, Or why fond Man so easily betrayed? - Eclogue the Second. Hassan; or the Camel-driver

Fetch me the money box and some punkwood, will you, my boy?" Gannon asked him, licking the honey from his plate. (I fear table manners in the cabin-indeed, all manners-had suffered since Gannon and his son had been left to themselves.)

I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it.

money should not be spent according to what the West considers the most dramatic kind of suffering.

Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.

Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other peoples' freedom and security.

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.