Quotes on Money

He who knows he has enough is rich.

Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.

As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.

I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.

Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.

Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money.

Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.

The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.

If you give money, spend yourself with it.

Becoming rich isn't as much about getting rich financially as about whom you become, in character and mind, to get rich.

Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich -that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

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

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.

I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.

Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.

Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.

If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.

Birth control appeals to the advanced radical because it is calculated to undermine the authority of the Christian churches. I look forward to seeing humanity free someday of the tryanny of Christianity no less than Capitalism.