quotations about money
Like water to the fish, money is the primary medium within which we live our economic lives.
THOMAS GRECO
Money: Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender
When I had money, money, O!
I knew no joy till I went poor;
For many a false man as a friend
Came knocking all day at my door.
WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES
Money
Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress.
FRANCIS BACON
De Augmentis Scientiarum
Money is an artificial, social convention. lf for any reason a substance begins to be used as money, all people will begin to value it ... as long as things can be bought and sold for a given substance, people will be content to sell and buy with it.
PAUL SAMUELSON
attributed, Changing Face of Money
Every man's credit is proportioned to the money which he has in his chest.
JUVENAL
Satires
Be your money's master, not its slave.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Maxims
The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933
It is against nature for money to beget money.
FRANCIS BACON
"Of Usury", The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral
Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.
PAUL NEWMAN
Paul Newman: A Life in Pictures
Money talks. If it's the dollar, it's small talk.
CROFT M. PENTZ
The Complete Book of Zingers
Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
APHRA BEHN
The Rover
What is not exchanged for money is in the same state with respect to the money, as if it did not exist.
KARL MARX
Collected Works of Karl Marx
Under the ideal measure of values there lurks the hard cash.
KARL MARX
Das Kapital
Money is the devil's eye.
ROMANIAN PROVERB
Money is such a powerful symbol in American culture that people must take some stance in relation to it. They can save it for a rainy day, let it burn a hole in their pocket, use it to keep up with the Joneses, throw it away, neither borrow nor lend it, or turn their back on it altogether. Whatever they do, they must reckon with the idea of money as well as with however much or little money they happen to have.
ELIZABETH STONE
Black Sheep and Kissing Cousins: How Our Family Stories Shape Us
Money attracts because it gives us the means to command the labor and service and finally the lives of others--human or otherwise.
EDWARD ABBEY
The Serpents of Paradise
All the illusions in regard to the monetary system are due to the fact that money is not regarded as something representing a social relation of production, but as a product of nature endowed with certain properties. The modern economists who sneer at the illusions of the monetary system, betray the same illusion as soon as they have to deal with higher economic forms, as, e.g., capital. It breaks forth in their confession of naïve surprise, when what they have just thought to have defined with great difficulty as a thing suddenly appears as a social relation and then reappears to tease them again as a thing, before they have barely managed to define it as a social relation.
KARL MARX
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
Having money is a way of being free of money.
ALBERT CAMUS
A Happy Death
Money ... is like a beautiful thoroughbred horse--very powerful & always in action, but unless this horse is trained when very young, it will be an out-of-control & dangerous animal when it grows to maturity.
DAVE RAMSEY
Financial Peace Revisited
If we could let go of our faith in money, who knows what we might put in its place?
LEWIS H. LAPHAM
Money and Class in America