Quotes About Money

A married man with a family will do anything for money.

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

There ain't many troubles that a man caint fix With seven hundred dollars and a thirty ought six.

But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.

I can frighten or buy ninety-nine out of every one hundred men.

Credit leads a man into temptation. Cash down is the only thing that will deliver him from evil.

Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to a man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in his pocket, he is half consoled, even though he cannot spend it.

Men are fools to invest in real estate.

When corruption is visited upon the cities of men, the mountains and the deserts await him. The cities are for money but the high-up hills are purely for the soul.

All money represents theft… To steal from the rich is a sacred and religious act. While looting, a man to his own self is true.

If money is a science, then it is a dark science...it has gone on developing...by its own rules

Middle-class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones.

The biggest machines, in those days, were already pushing the limits of what could be constructed on Arbre with reasonable amounts of money. I hadn't known that, I said. I always tend to assume there's an infinite amount of money out there. There might as well be, Arsibalt said, but most of it gets spent on pornography, sugar water, and bombs. There is only so much that can be scraped together for particle accelerators.

What, not coins in the bank? Does your purse hang as flaccid as a gelding's scrotum?

if money is a science, then it is a dark science, darker than alchemy. It split away from Natural Philosophy millennia ago, and has gone on developing ever since, by its own rules.

I hadn't known that,' I said. 'I always tend to assume there's an infinite amount of money out there.' 'There might as well be,' Arsibalt said, 'but most of it gets spent on pornography, sugar water, and bombs.

I always tend to assume there's an infinite amount of money out there." "There might as well be," Arsibalt said, "but most of it gets spent on pornography, sugar water, and bombs. There is only so much that can be scraped together for particle accelerators.

Middle-class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones. The goal of all such persons seems to be to make themselves cuddly and nonthreatening.

Hollywood was all about. Hollywood was merely a specialized bank—a consortium of large financial entities that hired talent, almost always for a flat rate, ordered that talent to create a product, and then marketed that product to death, all over the world, in every conceivable medium. The goal was to find products that would keep on making money forever, long after the talent had been paid off and sent packing.

Is it Protestant money or Catholic money you're after?" I ask. "It does not matter," he says. "Not where I come from." "Where in God's name do you come from?" I ask again. "May I go there with you? Because in the name of Our Lord's mammy, if I could be someplace where money's got no religion and religion's got no money, I'd be a happier woman.

The last year had been an education in how little having money really mattered. A rich Vagabond was a Vagabond still, and 'twas common knowledge that King Charles, during the Interregnum, had lived without money in Holland.

First, I must be getting the money on my side, because after magic wanes money is the most powerful thing on earth (followed by weapons that destroy whole cities in a go, and religion—that never goes away, damn it!—and lastly, female actors who do not wear much clothing).

Look, all I've got is one-and-a-half quadrillion dollars

But even if they did have that kind of money rattling around in their pockets, actually spending it would offend their native frugality.