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 | If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone. — Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American politician & writer 20 likes |
 | To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it. — G. K. Chesterton, 1874-1936, English writer & critic 17 likes |
 | If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. — Aristotle Onassis, 1900-1975, Greek tycoon 16 likes |
 | The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money. — Margaret Thatcher, 1925-2013, British Prime Minister 15 likes |
 | Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied. — Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832, English cleric & writer 12 likes |
 | Money is a good servant but a bad master. — Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, English philosopher 10 likes |
 | Money is not only the object but also the fountainhead of greed. — Karl Marx, 1818-1883, German philosopher 10 likes |
 | When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 10 likes |
 | So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money? — Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher 10 likes |
 | Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. — Somerset Maugham, 1874-1965, British writer 9 likes |
 | When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 9 likes |
 | All the money you made will never buy back your soul. — Bob Dylan, 1941-, American singer [Nobel 2016] 8 likes |
 | Microeconomics is about money you don't have, and macroeconomics is about money the government is out of. — P.J. O’ Rourke, 1947-2022, American columnist & writer 8 likes |
 | Having money is a way of being free of money. — Albert Camus, 1913-1960, French writer, Nobel 1957 7 likes |
| Time is money. — Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American politician & writer 7 likes |
 | When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. — Voltaire, 1694-1778, French philosopher & writer 7 likes |
 | Esteem money neither more nor less than it deserves, it is a good servant and a bad master. — Alexandre Dumas, fils, 1824-1895, French writer 6 likes |
 | Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry. — George Orwell, 1903-1950, British writer 6 likes |
| Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip. — Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832, English cleric & writer 6 likes |
 | Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the “gotta have it” scale. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 6 likes |
 | We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob. — Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1945, American President [1936-1945] 6 likes |
 | Political institutions are a superstructure on the economic foundation. — Vladimir Lenin, 1870-1924, Soviet revolutionary & leader 6 likes |
 | Money will not make you happy, and happy will not make you money. — Groucho Marx, 1890-1977, American comedian 5 likes |
 | I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 5 likes |
| He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it. — Somerset Maugham, 1874-1965, British writer 5 likes |
 | Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears. — Robert W. Sarnof, 1918-1997, American business executive 5 likes |
| Money doesn't talk, it swears. — Bob Dylan, 1941-, American singer [Nobel 2016] 5 likes |
 | Inferior people desire wealth. The mediocre class desires wealth as well as respect. But, great people desire only respect. Respect itself is considered as wealth by great people. — Chanakya, 370-280 π.X., Indian teacher & philosopher 5 likes |
 | Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity. — W.H. Auden, 1907-1973, British poet 5 likes |
| Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. — Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher 5 likes |
 | I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful. — Marilyn Monroe, 1926-1962, American actress 5 likes |
| Money is like muck, not good except it be spread. — Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, English philosopher 4 likes |
| After a point, and so on, money stops to matter, it stops being the goal, the game is all that matters. — Aristotle Onassis, 1900-1975, Greek tycoon 4 likes |
 | Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money. — Alan Greenspan, 1926-, American economist 4 likes |
| 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. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 4 likes |
| It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 4 likes |
 | Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 4 likes |
 | Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. — Calvin Coolidge, 1872-1933, American President [1923-1929] 4 likes |
| Wealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to humanity. — Calvin Coolidge, 1872-1933, American President [1923-1929] 4 likes |
| No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well. — Margaret Thatcher, 1925-2013, British Prime Minister 4 likes |
 | If you want money more than anything, you’ll be bought and sold your whole life. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 4 likes |
 | A necessary evil is not a lesser evil. The worst evil is the one we need. For example, money. — Alain de Benoist, 1943-, French philosopher 4 likes |
 | Better to touch money than wood, because money is more likely to ward off bad luck than wood. — Henri Jeanson, 1900-1970, French critic & columnist 4 likes |
 | As money grows, care follows it and the hunger for more. 4 likes |
 | Money is like time: do not waste it, you'll always have enough. — Duc de Levis, 1764-1830, French politician & author of maxims 4 likes |
 | Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart. — Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, American writer, poet, satirist, critic 3 likes |
 | 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, 1788-1860, German philosopher 3 likes |
| The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 3 likes |
 | I inherited my ability from both parents; my mother's ability for spending money, and my father's ability for not earning it. — Laurence J Peter, 1919-1990, Canadian writer & educator 3 likes |
 | Making money is art. And working is art. And good business is the best art. — Andy Warhol, 1928-1987, American artist 3 likes |
| It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent. — Somerset Maugham, 1874-1965, British writer 3 likes |
| Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think. — Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher 3 likes |
 | It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class. — Sinclair Lewis, 1885-1951, American writer, Nobel 1930 3 likes |
| Money is itself a product of circulation. — Karl Marx, 1818-1883, German philosopher 3 likes |
 | And money can't buy everything. For example: poverty. — Nelson Algren, 1909-1981, American writer 3 likes |
 | Many folks think they aren’t good at earning money, when what they don’t know is how to use it. — Frank A. Clark, 1911-1991, American cartoonist 2 likes |
 | There is but one thing that money can not buy: to wit the wag of a dog’s tail. — Josh Billings, 1818-1885, American humorist 2 likes |
 | Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it. — Cesare Pavese, 1908-1950, Italian writer 1 likes |
 | Money is like sex. It seems much more important when you don't have any. — Charles Bukowski, 1920-1994, American writer 1 likes |
 | To a shower of gold most things are penetrable. — Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881, English writer 1 likes |
 | I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to get rich. — Gertrude Stein, 1874-1946, American writer 1 likes |
 | Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life’s savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all. — Thomas Sowell, 1930 -, American political thinker 1 likes |
 | He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year. — Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519, Italian polymath & painter 1 likes |
 | Without economic concerns the fool dies from boredom. — Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer 1 likes |
 | The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it. — Antoine Rivarol, 1753-1801, French author of maxims 1 likes |
 | Money is the sign of liberty. To curse money is to curse liberty – to curse life, which is nothing, if it be not free. — Remy de Gourmont, 1858-1915, French poet 1 likes |
 | Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money. — Graham Greene, 1904-1991, British writer 1 likes |
| Money cannot buy the fuel of love but is excellent kindling. — W.H. Auden, 1907-1973, British poet 1 likes |
 | The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty. — Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894, Scottish writer 1 likes |
 | Money is a poor man’s credit card. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist 1 likes |
 | It's better to be born lucky than rich. If you're rich, you may lose your money, but if you're born lucky, you will always have more money. — D. H. Lawrence, 1885-1930, British writer 1 likes |
| Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't. — D. H. Lawrence, 1885-1930, British writer 1 likes |
 | The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure. — Hermann Hesse, 1877-1962, German writer, Nobel 1946 1 likes |
 | The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt. — John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908-2006, American-Canadian economist 1 likes |
| It is not that money does not smell, it is that man does not smell it. — Henri Jeanson, 1900-1970, French critic & columnist 1 likes |
 | The only good reason to have money is this: so that you can tell any SOB in the world to go to hell. — Humphrey Bogart, 1899-1957, American actor 1 likes |
 | If you have something, anything, an ability of some kind, you want to use it. That, I think, is the essence of human living … The idea is to do more in life … Money is nice, but it’s not what really makes you feel good. — Jerry Seinfeld, 1954-, American comedian 1 likes |
 | What you do for money you do badly. — Jules Verne, 1826-1905, French writer 1 likes |
| Your money does not cause my poverty. Refusal to believe this is at the bottom of most bad economic thinking. — P.J. O’ Rourke, 1947-2022, American columnist & writer 1 likes |
 | The answer to any question starting, “Why don’t they...” is almost always, “Money”. — Robert Heinlein, 1907-1988, American sci-fi writer 1 likes |
 | He that gains well and spends well needs no count book. — George Herbert, 1593-1633, Welsh poet 1 likes |
 | Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money. — Tertullian, 155-240 AD, Berber-Roman Christian author 1 likes |
 | Riches are well, if gotten well and spent well. — Vespasian, 9-79 AD, Roman Emperor 1 likes |
| Maybe a person’s time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food. — Frank A. Clark, 1911-1991, American cartoonist 1 likes |
 | Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody. — Agatha Christie, 1890-1976, British writer 1 likes |
 | The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any. — Katharine Whitehorn, 1928-2021, British columnist 1 likes |
| The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you. — Katharine Whitehorn, 1928-2021, British columnist 1 likes |
 | The greedy search for money or success will almost always lead men into unhappiness. Why? Because that kind of life makes them depend upon things outside themselves. — André Maurois, 1885-1967, French writer 1 likes |
 | Money spoils a person, but unfortunately, so does the lack of it. — Yevgeny Kaseyev, contemporary Russian author of maxims 1 likes |
| There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little. — Charles Bukowski, 1920-1994, American writer 1 likes |
| I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money. — Thomas Sowell, 1930 -, American political thinker 1 likes |
Bible Quotes
 | For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. — Epistles of Paul ‐ 1 Timothy 6:10 6 likes |
Latin Quotes
 | Money is the soul of war. Pecunia nervus belli. — Cicero, 106-43 BC, Roman orator & statesman 47 likes |
| Money does not stink. Pecunia non olet. — Vespasian, 9-79 AD, Roman Emperor 28 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank. — Woody Allen, 1935-, American actor & film director 7 likes |
 | I've got all the money I'll ever need. If I die by four o'clock. — Henry Youngman, 1906-1998, American comedian 5 likes |
 | If money does not make you happy, give it to me. — Jules Renard, 1864-1910, French writer 5 likes |
 | If dat ghost have money, I tells him never to haunt you less'n he wants to lose it! — Eugene O’Neill, 1888-1953, American playwright, Nobel 1936 5 likes |
| People don’t turn down money! It’s what separates us from the animals. — Jerry Seinfeld, 1954-, American comedian 5 likes |
 | All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. — Spike Milligan, 1918-2002, Irish comedian 4 likes |
 | I bought a book, “How to make it big.” I got ripped off. It was about money. — Rodney Dangerfield, 1924-2004, American comedian 4 likes |
 | A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore. — Yogi Berra, 1925-2015, American baseball player & humorist 4 likes |
| Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. — Woody Allen, 1935-, American actor & film director 3 likes |
 | Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it. — Kin Hubbard, 1868-1930, American cartoonist 1 likes |
 | Las Vegas is the only place I know where money really talks – it says, “Goodbye.” — Frank Sinatra, 1915-1998, American singer 1 likes |
| To become rich you need three things: intelligence, talent, and a lot of money. — Yevgeny Kaseyev, contemporary Russian author of maxims 1 likes |
 | I despise money, especially small change. — François Cavanna, 1923-2014, French humorist 1 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | For wealth is useless to the dead. Ως τοις θανούσι πλούτος ουδέν ωφελεί. — Aeschylus, 525-456 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Persians 17 likes |
 | A fair man never becomes rich. Ανήρ δίκαιος πλούτον ουκ έχει ποτέ. — Menander, 4th cent. BC, Ancient Greek dramatist (New Comedy) 11 likes |
 | You cannot buy glory with money. Δόξα δε χρημάτων ουκ ωνητή. — Isocrates, 436-338 BC, Ancient Greek rhetorician 6 likes |
 | A man completely enslaved to money will never be just. Ο χρημάτων παντελών ήσσων ουκ αν ποτέ είη δίκαιος. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 6 likes |
 | Do nothing only for money. Μηδέν χρημάτων ένεκα πράττειν. — Periander of Corinth, 668-584 BC, tyrant of Corinth 6 likes |
 | War is a matter not so much of arms as of expenditure. Έστιν ο πόλεμος ουχ όπλων το πλέον, αλλά δαπάνης. — Thucydides, 460-394 BC, Ancient Greek historian 5 likes |
| If we have money, we shall have friends. Εάν δ’ έχωμεν χρήμαθ’, έξομεν φίλους — Menander, 4th cent. BC, Ancient Greek dramatist (New Comedy) 5 likes |
 | It is not safe to handle neither a horse without bridle nor wealth without thinking. Ούτε ίππω χωρίς χαλινού ούτε πλούτω χωρίς λογισμού δυνατόν ασφαλώς χρήσασθαι. — Socrates, 469-399 BC, Ancient Geek Philosopher 5 likes |
 | Gold is the nerves of the war. Νεύρα πολέμου χρυσός. — Pindar, 522-438 BC, Ancient Greek lyric poet 5 likes |
 | Wealth, little man, is the god of the wise, the rest is show and fancy talk. Ο πλούτος, ανθρωπίσκε, τοις σοφοίς θεός, τα δ’ άλλα κόμποι και λόγων ευμορφία. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Cyclops 4 likes |
 | Tis money we need; for without money nothing can be done. Δει δε χρημάτων, και άνευ τούτων ουδέν εστι γενέσθαι των δεόντων. — Demosthenes, 384-322 BC, Ancient Athenian & statesman orator 4 likes |
 | Fortune did not give money to the rich, but lent it. Τα χρήματα τοις πλουσίοις η τύχη ου δεδώρηται, αλλά δεδάνικεν. — Bion of Borysthenes, c. 325-255 BC, Ancient Greek Cynic philosopher 4 likes |
 | Love of money is the mother of all bad. Η φιλοχρημοσύνη μήτηρ κακότητος απάσης. — Phocylides, c. 5th cent. BC, Ancient Greek poet 4 likes |
 | In all things there is saturation except wealth. Πλην πλούτου, παντός χρήματος εστι κόρος. — Theognis of Megara, 6th cent. BC, Ancient Greek poet 3 likes |
| Speak not of wealth. I cannot admire a god whom even the wickedest man can get into a hold. Μη πλούτον είπης. Ουχί θαυμάζω θεόν, όν χω κάκιστος ραδίως εκτήσατο. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Aeolus 3 likes |
 | Wealth should not be seized; god-given wealth is much better. Χρήματα δ᾽ ουχ αρπακτά. Θεόσδοτα πολλόν αμείνω. — Hesiod, 7th cent. BC, Ancient Greek poet ‐ Works and Days -320 3 likes |
 | Weep, moneylenders, yourselves and your money and your interest’s interest. Κλάετ’ ω ‘βολοστάται, αυτοί τε και ταρχαία και τόκοι τόκων. — Aristophanes, 445-386 BC, Ancient Greek comic playwright ‐ Clouds 3 likes |
 | Wealth is a weak anchor. Πλούτος ασθενής άγκυρα. — Pythagoras, 580-490 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 1 likes |
Proverbs
 | A fool and his money are soon parted. 7 likes |
 | God reigns in heaven and money on earth. 6 likes |
 | Shrouds have no pockets. 5 likes |
| He who pays the piper calls the tune. 3 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | Follow the money....Just follow the money. — from the film All the President’s Men (1976) 6 likes |
 | Show me the money. — from the film Jerry Maguire (1996) 3 likes |
