Quotes About Money

Money talks...but all mine ever says is good-bye.

where did anyone in England get the money to spend their life collecting old country stories? Everything seemed to be rationed here, except gossip.

I am told that it is for my good that I am governed; however, as I give my money to be governed, it follows that it is for my good that I give my money, which is possible; but which nevertheless deserves to be checked.

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.

Said a disciple, 'I don't trade my love for money.' Said the Master, 'isn't itas bad - or worse - that you trade it for love?

Primero: es inútil que trates de mitigar tus sentimientos de inseguridad intentando cambiar las cosas exteriores a ti. Puede que tus esfuerzos se vean coronados por el éxito, aunque no es eso lo más frecuente; puede que consigas al menos algún alivio, pero éste no será muy duradero. No merece la pena, por tanto, que gastes tus energías y tu tiempo en mejorar tu apariencia física, en hacer más dinero o en asegurarte el amor de tus amigos.

There are many people in this world," Himerius says, "who do not care to what purposes their engines are put. So long as they are paid.

Messengers had been sent ahead to ask Cleopatra to bring money and clothing for the soldiers.

He went straight to Antony to ask for the money. He found him in his garden

even without access to Caesar's estate, Octavian had large sums of money at his disposal.

even if Antony held back the moneys due. He also put up for sale all Caesar's properties and estates.

Lucius Sergius Catilina was an altogether more formidable opponent. He was one of a line of able and rebellious young aristocrats during the declining years of the Roman Republic who refused to settle down after early indiscretions and enter respectable politics as defenders of the status quo. They usually joined the populares. Sometimes they did so out of youthful idealism and intellectual conviction, but others were simply rebelling against family discipline. They often badly needed money.

Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time.

Until he lost all his money, my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unusual among his immediate family in that he was enormously cultured and had an incredible library.

We have no money. We have no possessions. Maybe that is why we value the things we do have ... loyalty and friendship.

Abbiatico and Salvinelli," he said. "It cost me thirty grand—or my mother, anyway.

Oh, and since the state received a thousand dollars in federal funds for every child taken into custody, it was a nice little earner

know the truth now and it's that Richard betrayed us,' she said. 'He looked after us. He gave us money. He got me work. He pretended to be my friend. But all along he'd been lying to us. He knew perfectly well what had happened at Long Way Hole. If he hadn't been such a coward, Charlie would still be alive.

He wants to make money! And he doesn't care if he trashes my life to get it. I told you. That man is vile. He should never have come to this island. He's positively evil.

You don't think he deserved it? Charles le Mesurier destroyed my son and made money out of his pain – and the pain of hundreds like him! Go on the website. Look at it.

Christopher Nolan may be a big-shot director, but he's got his head right up his arse. Not that I care. Eleven weeks shooting. A ton of money. And I go to France.

And as for that house of his, you know he spent five million quid building it? How he got planning permission right on the edge of the sea, and his own private pillbox, is anyone's guess.

wanted to remind myself just how terrible it was: the awful language, the use of clichés, its near-pornographic relish. The books must have made Dawn Adams a ton of money, and as I'd learned from my time with Hawthorne, money and murder have a way of going hand in hand.

When she asked you for help or for money it would always be personal.