Quotes About Money

I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.

I touch a stack of the bills. The money is soggy and limp, having given up any hope of being palmed into the hands of Mafioso bouncers at a discothèque. It's grown complacent, moldering in an abandoned house on a mountaintop.

Money is not energy. Wars would also arise as competing political forces saw opportunities to advance, but military expenditure would simply draw more energy and funds away from maintaining social systems and infrastructure, generally leading to the fragmentation or breakdown of centralised systems of administration, governance, and rule.

Genius is no respecter of time, trouble, money or persons, the four things around which human affairs turn most persistently.

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

The want of money is the root of all evil.

We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.

For what is worth in anythingBut so much money as 'twill bring?

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

tailor, if he did not drink and attended to his business, could earn more money than a clerk

While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.

Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay home and see bad television for nothing?

The more freely a librarian mingles with readers, and the greater the amount of assistance he renders them, the more intense does the conviction of citizens become, that the library is a useful institution, and the more willing do they grow to grant money in larger and larger sums to be used in buying books and employing additional assistants.

Without economy none can be rich, and with it few will be poor.

Small debts are like small gun shot; they are rattling around us on all sides and one can scarcely escape being wounded. Large debts are like canons, they produce a loud noise, but are of little danger.

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Whatever you have, spend less.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, & over these ideals they dispute & cannot unite but they all worship money.

did here sit two or three hours calling for twenty books to lay this money out upon, and found myself at a great losse where to choose, and do see how my nature would gladly return to laying out money in this trade.

He tells me we are like to receive some shame about the business of his bastarde with Jack Noble; but no matter, so it cost us no money.