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Quotes About Money

Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.
~ Mary Quant
I should think more crimes have probably been committed by chaps with inferiority complexes trying to demonstrate their virility, than even for money.
~ Mary Renault
I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.
~ Mary Roberts Rinehart
To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.
~ Mary Russell Mitford
A job is what we do for money work is what we do for love.
~ Unknown
To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.
~ Mason Cooley
Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.
~ Mason Cooley
Given the power and influence that science increasingly has in our daily lives, it is important that we as citizens of an open and democratic society learn to separate good science from bunk. This is not just a matter of intellectual curiosity, as it affects where large portions of our tax money go, and in some cases even whether people's lives are lost as a result of nonsense.
~ Massimo Pigliucci
A healthy body is better than a healthy bank account.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Money makes the world go round, but love makes the universe go in every direction.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Well, look, I have to go. Gotta' get up early and waste some more money on my overpriced education.
~ Matt Damon
What I've noticed in a lot of other cartoonists is a sullen resentfulness about their lack of attention and tiny checking accounts. I vowed back in the days when I had no money that I would not allow that kind of bitterness to overtake me. . . . Cartooning, in general, is a very solitary occupation, and it breeds all sorts of self-punishing thinking
~ Matt Groening
The news was prioritized in a way I could not understand. For instance, there was nothing on new mathematical observations or still-undiscovered polygons, but quite a bit about politics, which on this planet was essentially all about war and money. Indeed, war and money seemed to be so popular on the news, it should more accurately have been titled The War and Money Show.
~ Matt Haig
Indeed, war and money seemed to be so popular on the news, it should more accurately have been titled The War and Money Show.
~ Matt Haig
Time is not like pocket money that you can spend, because time is the person spending the pocket money and the pocket money is you
~ Matt Haig
What is legacy but the most empty and mediocre substitute for what we have. Steel and money and fancy concert halls don't give you immortality.
~ Matt Haig
I regret my financial mismanagement.
~ Matt Haig
Listen, I know you think my father was a bad human, and it was a bad thing he did, but there was good, too. He was just weak. We had no money. Humans are... complicated.
~ Matt Haig
They have no way of coming to terms with what are, biologically, the two most important events that happen to them – procreation and death. They pretend to know that money can't buy them happiness, yet they would choose money every time.
~ Matt Haig
I picked up these books and realised they both said '£8.99' on the back. The interpolation of the entire language I had done with the aid of Cosmopolitan meant I knew this was the price of the books, but I did not have any money. So I waited until no one was looking (a long time) and then I ran very fast out of the shop. I eventually settled into a walk, as running without clothes is not entirely compatible with external testicles, and then I started to read.
~ Matt Haig
They pretend to know that money can't buy them happiness, yet they would choose money every time. They celebrate mediocrity at every available opportunity and love to see others' misfortune.
~ Matt Haig
Everything looked expensive and calm, as if calm was something you needed money to pay for.
~ Matt Haig
Indeed, war and money seemed to be so popular on the news, it should more accurately have been titled The War and Money Show. I had been told right. This was a planet characterized by violence and greed.
~ Matt Haig
Such a sadness to that word, don't you think? Legacy. What a meaningless thing. All that work for a future in which they don't appear [...] What is legacy but the most empty and mediocre substitute for what we have. Steel and money and fancy concert halls don't give you immortality.
~ Matt Haig