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
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