Quotes About Money

He was a rich man—richer, I think, than Mr. Macafee—and like most rich men he had nothing distinctive about him, the money having assumed for him the task of self-expression that, in poorer men, is assumed by the personality;

You hated it—hated its nasty ugly ways, its noise and smoke and most of all its shaggy shitty itch for gelt, gelt for this and gelt for that until a man couldn't fart without paying

I decided that the future most in keeping with the dark figure I planned and his journey toward war was what I call the do-nothing future, the one in which humanity clings to its old home, the continents of Earth, and waits for the money to run out.

You see, you don't despise money. Nor do I. Wealth is stuffy and stupid and arrogant, and the only good thing about it is that it has money. Money's lovely stuff—just look at this." He held up the owl. "See how it shines? On one side the owl: the male principle. On the other, the Lady of Thought: the female principle." He spun the coin on the table. "Money always gives you something to think about.

Rarely understanding how much shopkeepers and waiters were charging him, he paid for everything with fifty-or hundred-franc notes and came home with sagging pockets of change.

The Pardoner's Prologue Here follows the Prologue of the Pardoner's Tale. "The love of money is the root of all evil." 1 Timothy 6:10 "My Lords," said the Pardoner, "in Churches, when I preach, I take pains to speak with a resounding voice and have my words ring out as loud as a bell, for I know by rote all that I expound. My text is always the same, and ever was—the love of money is the root of all evil.

Lost money is not lost beyond recall, But loss of time brings on the loss of all.

In the meanwhile this Yeoman began to smile. "Brother," said he, "do you wish me to tell you? I am a Fiend. My dwelling is in Hell. And here on Earth I ride about looking for gain, to learn where men will give me any thing. My acquisitions are the sum of all my income. Look how you ride for the same intent. To gain money, you care not how. And so do I, for I would ride to the end of the World to catch my prey.

Woyzeck Us poor people. Yes, money, money. You see, Captain, if you have no money. Try raising someone like me in this world on morals alone. Man is also flesh and blood.

Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

Old-fashioned people think you can have a soul without money. They think the less money you have, the more soul you have. Young people nowadays know better. A soul is a very expensive thing to keep: much more so than a motor car.

When a man says money can do anything that settles it: he hasn't got any. When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.

COKANE [looking compassionately at him] Ah, my dear fellow, the love of money is the root of all evil. LICKCHEESE. Yes, sir; and we'd all like to have the tree growing in our garden.

How we lavish our money and worship on Shakespeare without in the least knowing why!

The Word of God does not say that we can't be wealthy or have cash; it only says we cannot allow the pursuit of money to become a priority over serving God.

Some people give to the church money that should be allotted for bills and upkeep of the home; this explains why the money they give never yields a harvest.

Don't give your money to the church. They should be giving their money to you.

Conservatives say if you don't give the rich more money, they will lose their incentive to invest. As for the poor, they tell us they've lost all incentive because we've given them too much money.

I don't own any stocks or bonds. All my money is tied up in debt.

I found the road to wealth when I decided that a part of all I earned was mine to keep

It's rather a strong check to one's self-complacency to find how much of one's right doing depends on not being in want of money.

Mrs. Hackit declines cream; she has so long abstained from it with an eye to the weekly butter-money, that abstinence, wedded to habit, has begotten aversion.