quotations about money
A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.
ALBERT CAMUS
The Myth of Sisyphus
No matter how successful a relationship may be, both sexually and emotionally, the lack of money can hamper and undermine, little by little, even the greatest passion.
LAURA ESQUIVEL
Swift as Desire
If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.
ENGLISH PROVERB
Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
SOPHOCLES
fragment, The Sons of Aleus
Money was invented to spend.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON
Dune: House Harkonnen
Your lovin' gives me a thrill
But your lovin' don't pay my bills
I need money -- That's what I want.
BERRY GORDY & JANIE BRADFORD
"Money (That's What I Want)"
It is money, or rather the want of it, which makes men workers. It is the appetizing provocative that teases the business nerve of more than half the world; while most of the results of ingenuity, skill, intellect, tact, address, and competition, depend upon its unremitting pursuit. Want of money is the great principle of moral gravitation, the only power that is strong enough to keep things in their places. It is this scantiness of means, this continual deficiency, this constant hitch, this perpetual struggle to keep the head above water and the wolf from the door, that keeps society from falling to pieces. Let every man in the community have, as a rule, a few dollars more than he wants, and anarchy would follow.
WILLIAM MATHEWS
"Money--Its Use and Abuse", Hints on Success in Life
Money is like any other virus: once it has rotted the soul of the person who houses it, it sets off in search of new blood.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON
The Shadow of the Wind
Endless money forms the sinews of war.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
Philippics
It's easy to clean up when you got money.
J. F. LAWTON
Pretty Woman
Each of us, with money, gets further and further away from those moments where the hand pulls the beet root from the soil, shakes the fish from the net into the basket -- not to mention the way it separates us from one another, so that when enough money comes between people, they lie apart like parts of a chicken hacked up for stewing.
SAMUEL R. DELANY
Neverÿon
Top 15 Things Money Can't Buy: Time. Happiness. Inner Peace. Integrity. Love. Character. Manners. Health. Respect. Morals. Trust. Patience. Class. Common sense. Dignity.
ROY T. BENNETT
The Light in the Heart
How beauteous are rouleaus! how charming chests
Containing ingots, bags of dollars, coins
(Not of old victors, all whose heads and crests
Weigh not the thin ore where their visage shines,
But) of fine unclipt gold, where dully rests
Some likeness, which the glittering cirque confines,
Of modern, reigning, sterling, stupid stamp;--
Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.
LORD BYRON
Don Juan
You put a wage behind something, it gives the act a sort of respectability.
PATRICK DEWITT
The Sisters Brothers
Money. Cause of all evil, Auri sacra fames. The god of the day--but not to be confused with Apollo.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Dictionary of Received Ideas
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.
DONALD TRUMP
Trump: The Art of the Deal
Money doesn't talk, it swears obscenity.
BOB DYLAN
"It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)"
When money talks, nobody cares what kind of grammar it uses.
ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES
Poems and Paragraphs
A group of politicians want to replace the dollar bill with a coin. Rappers would be out of business. You can't make it rain with coins. People would get hurt. Strippers would have to wear fanny packs. You can't fill up a thong with coins. Get rid of the penny. If it's not worth bending over for, it's not worth making.
JIMMY KIMMEL
Jimmy Kimmel Live!, September 2011
Never pretend to have money except when you are in straits. The poor man who pretends to have a bank account betters his credit and takes no risk. But the prosperous individual who counts his money in the street, forthwith will be invited to attend a charity bazaar.
GEORGE ADE
"The Fable of the Old Fox and the Young Fox", True Bills