#Money Quotes

“Nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal.”

“Remuneration! O! That's the Latin word for three farthings”

“If thou wilt lend this money, lend it notAs to thy friends; for when did friendship takeA breed for barren metal of his friend?”

“Gold--what can it not do, and undo?”

“The instances that second marriage moveAre base respects of thrift, but none of love.”

“Neither a borrower nor a lender be.”

“Put money in thy purse.”

“I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.”

“ROMEO There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murders in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell. I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none. Farewell: buy food, and get thyself in flesh. Come, cordial and not poison, go with me To Juliet's grave; for there must I use thee.”

“It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated.”

“Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money.”

“To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off. It is only a postponement of the real payment, a bribe paid for silence, a creditsystem in which a paper promise to pay answers for the time instead of liquidation. We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man.”

“The whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it.”

“Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.”

“Money often costs too much.”

“If money go before, all ways do lie open.”

“A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.”

“If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?”

“O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!”

“Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.”

“How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object! For this the foolish over-careful fathers Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care, Their bones with industry.”

“Remember, you can earn more money, but when time is spent it is gone forever.”

“Money will buy you a bed, but not a good night's sleep, a house but not a home, a companion but not a friend.”

“The world is his who has money to go over it.”

“I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in their wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. ... All that interests in any character [is this]: has he (or she) the money to marry with? ... Suicide is more respectable.”

“When we run out of money, we have to start thinking.”

“Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.”

“You can get everything money will buy without a lick of character, but you can't get any of the things money won't buy: happiness, joy, peace of mind, winning relationships, etc., without character.”

“My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.”

“Don't give your son money. As far as you can afford it, give him horses.”

“The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.”

“money is not everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen”

“Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.”

“Success must never be measured by how much money you have.”

“But harder still it has proved to resist and rule the dragon Money, with his paper wings. Chancellors and Boards of Trade, Pitt, Peel, and Bobinson, and their parliaments, and their whole generation, adopted false principles, and went to their graves in the belief that they were enriching the country which they were impoverishing.”

“If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.”

“Money is not the most important thing, but when you need it, there are few substitutes. So while I like the things money can buy, I love what money won't buy. It bought me a house but it won't buy me a home. It would buy me a companion but it won't buy me a friend.”

“Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.”

“This is no time to lend money, especially upon bare friendship without security.”

“He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends.”

“Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.”

“That's what a Congressman or a Senator is for -- to see that too much money don't accumulate in the national Treasury.”

“The man that found the 726-carat diamond in Africa, received $350,000 for it and wants to buy a farm and silk hat. Well, I can understand a man perhaps being eccentric enough to want to own a silk hat.”

“The way to make money in the stock market is to buy a stock. Then, when it goes up, sell it. If it's not going to go up, don't buy it!”

“They call it the Latin Quarter because nobody there is Latin and nobody has a quarter.”

“Many people say, "When I get a million dollars, then I'll be happy because I'll have security," but that's not necessarily so. Most people who acquire a million dollars want another and then another. Or they could be like a good friend of mine who made and lost every dime of a million dollars. It didn't bother him a bit. He wasn't excited about it, but he explained to me, "Zig, I still know everything necessary to make another million dollars, and I've learned what to do not to lost it. I'll simply go back to work and earn it again.”

“The definition of success is getting many of the things money can buy and all the things money can't buy.”

“The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo.”

“It saves a lot of trouble if, instead of having to earn money and save it, you can just go and borrow it.”

“When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.”