Quotes About Money

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

Now, in the modern money economy everything in the nature of a social-economic occurrence consists in human actions and behaviour.

Money never starts an idea. It is always the idea that starts the money.

Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

Journalists aren't supposed to praise things. It's a violation of work rules almost as serious as buying drinks with our own money or absolving the CIA of something.

You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something Brussels sprouts never do.

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

Young men starting in life should avoid running into debt.

The inordinate love of money, no doubt, may be and is the root of all evil, but money itself, when properly used, is not only a handy thing to have in the house, but affords the gratification of blessing our race by enabling its possessor to enlarge the scope of human happiness and human influence.

Plata o Plomo.

Cooking was something women did to nourish and nurture their families, whereas for men it was largely something they did professionally to gain money and status.

I don't like reality television, but it pays so much money.

He had the nervous, self-deprecating air of a man with enough money to have a bad conscience about it. His

It's not right to spend money you don't have to perpetuate a lie about who you are.

I can't think of it now. It costs too much.

If we lived close to nature in an agricultural society, the seasons as metaphor and fact would continually frame our lives. But the master metaphor of our era does not come from agriculture - it comes from manufacturing. We do not believe that we 'grow' our lives - we believe that we 'make' them. Just listen to how we use the word in everyday speech: we make time, make friends, make meaning, make money, make a living, make love.

Bill Moyers has said, "The antidote, the only antidote, to the power of organized money in Washington is the power of organized people."10

Avec l'argent, nul n'est à l'aise : ceux qui croient le détester l'idolâtrent en secret. Ceux qui l'idolâtrent le surestiment. Ceux qui feignent de le mépriser se mentent à eux-mêmes. Engouement

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When you've made them that much money that fast, they don't ever want you to move a muscle or change a thing. "You just stay like you are, girl. You are just gold! Stay that way, honey!" And they are so happy, but it's very boring for you.

Rather than spend money for further research and development, the government and the taxpayers (of which Sam was not one) had opted for stiffer penalties for vandals. As if that would put Humpty Dumpty together again.

I reflected that had he married for attraction alone he could have had me. Had he married for money alone, he could have had Miss Vincy. Instead he had chosen a compromise between the two and had ended up with Miss Charity Winthrop. I did not think he could have done worse for himself if he'd tried.