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Money

Money is representative,
and follows the nature and fortunes
of the owner.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'd like to live as a poor man
with lots of money.
-Pablo Picasso

I can't afford to waste my time making money.
-Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

Money is a wonderful thing,
but it is possible to pay too high a price for it.
-Alexander Bloch

Money often costs too much.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

The price of anything
is the amount of life you pay for it.
-Henry David Thoreau

Money is human happiness in the abstract;
he, then, who is no longer capable
of enjoying human happiness in the concrete,
devotes his heart entirely to money.
-Arthur Schopenhauer

Money is the barometer
of a society's virtue.
-Ayn Rand

Make money your God,
it will plague you like the devil.
-Anonymous

Money is in some respects like fire -
it is a very excellent servant but a terrible master.
-P. T. Barnum

Money is only a tool.
It will take you wherever you wish,
but it will not replace you as the driver.
-Ayn Rand

It is said that for money you can have everything, but you cannot.
You can buy food, but not appetite;
 medicine, but not health;
knowledge but not wisdom;
glitter, but not beauty;
fun, but not joy;
acquaintances, but not friends;
servants, but not faithfulness;
leisure, but not peace.
You can have the husk of everything for money,
but not the kernel.
-Arne Garborg

Money is not required
to buy one necessity of the soul.
-Henry David Thoreau

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery
that makes people think they can be happy without money.
-Albert Camus

Anybody who thinks money will make you happy
hasn't got any.
-David Geffen

Money is only important if you haven't got it.
-Michael Todd

The best way to keep money in perspective is to have some.
-Louis Rukeyser

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
-Juvenal

The lack of money is the root of all evil.
-George Bernard Shaw

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil.
The want of money is so quite as truly.
-Samuel Butler

So you think money is the root of all evil.
Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
-Ayn Rand

A man without money
is a bow without an arrow.
-Romanian Proverb

He that is without money
is a bird without wings.
-Thomas Fuller

Money is freedom.
-Horace Walpole

Money for me has only one sound: liberty.
~Gabrielle Chanel

The desire for gold is not for gold.
It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.
-George Gordon Noel Byron

A light purse makes a heavy heart.
-Thomas Fuller

A heavy purse makes a light heart.
-John Ray

A full purse is not as good
as an empty one is bad.
-Yiddish Proverb

It is pretty to see
what money will do.
-Samuel Pepys

Money is power, freedom, a cushion,
the root of all evil, the sum of all blessings.
-Carl Sandburg

How pleasant it is to have money.
-Arthur Hugh Clough

He who wants to get rich
wants to get rich quickly.
-Juvenal

Money grows on the tree of persistence.
-Japanese Proverb

Do what you love
and the money will follow.
-Marsha Sinetar

Where is the money going to come from?
From wherever it is at the moment.
-Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Money begets money.
-Giovanni Torriano

Money is for making things happen.
-Richard Branson

My philosophy is that if I have any money
I invest it in new ventures
and not having it sit around.
-Richard Branson

Money is like manure,
of very little use except to be spread.
-Francis Bacon

Money is like manure;
it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around
encouraging young things to grow.
-Thornton Wilder

Money is meant to increase the wealth,
the power and the productiveness
of a group, a country, or better, the whole earth.
Money is a means, a force, a power, and not an end in itself.
And like all forces and all powers, it is by movement and circulation
that it grows and increases its power, not by accumulation and stagnation.
-Mirra Alfassa "The Mother"

Money represents a great power of life
which must be conquered for divine use.
-Aurobindo Ghose

The golden age only comes to men
when they have forgotten gold.
-Gilbert K. Chesterton