MONEY QUOTES VIII

quotations about money

Money spent withdraws its charm.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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The wealthy seldom possess wealth: oftener they are possessed by it.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts

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You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it.

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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One just spends as much money as one has. Very peculiar that! You never actually have any money. You think, If I had this much money ten years ago, I would have thought I was amazingly rich, but I still manage to spend it all and not have any left.

JEANETTE WINTERSON

The Paris Review, winter 1997

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Money is freedom. Money is a private plane. Money is no metal detection.

50 CENT

Esquire, January 2010

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Money is like water in a leaky bucket: no sooner there, it begins to drip.

JOHN UPDIKE

Rabbit is Rich

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In matters of money there's no such thing as enough.

JEAN ANOUILH

Thieves' Carnival

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Money, which represents the prose of life, and is hardly spoken of in parlors without apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

"Nominalist and Realist", Essays

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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

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Rule No. 1: Never lose money.
Rule No. 2: Never forget rule No. 1.

WARREN BUFFET

The Tao of Warren Buffet

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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO

Philippics

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Love and money should properly have nothing to do with each other.

JOHN SAUL

Guardian

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Stripped of ideals, mere money making is among the coarsest of occupations.

LEWIS F. KORNS

Thoughts

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We insist that "money is the root of all evil," and behave as if it were the source of all good.

CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM

The Maxims of Marmaduke

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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

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It's easy to clean up when you got money.

J. F. LAWTON

Pretty Woman

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Money is an agreement within a community to use something as a medium of exchange.

BERNARD LIETAER

The Future of Money


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

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A man can no more make money suddenly and largely, and be unharmed by it, than one could suddenly grow from a child's stature to a man's without harm.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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Money and goods are certainly the best of references.

CHARLES DICKENS

Our Mutual Friend

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