Money Quotes And Sayings
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“This planet has – or rather had – a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn’t the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.”
– Douglas Adams
“You piss me off you Salmon… You’re too expensive in restaurants.”
– Eddie Izzard
“You don’t appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life.”
– Emo Philips
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
– Epictetus
“America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.”
– Evan Esar
“Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.”
– Francis Bacon
“Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.”
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Money may not buy happiness, but I’d rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.”
– Françoise Sagan
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
“A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
“No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.”
– Gabriel García Márquez
“Lack of money is the root of all evil.”
– George Bernard Shaw
“I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.”
– George Best
“Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.”
– George Burns
“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.”
– George Carlin
“Don’t give your money to the church. They should be giving their money to you.”
– George Carlin
“While money can’t buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.”
– Groucho Marx
“As humanity perfects itself, man becomes degraded. When everything is reduced to the mere counter-balancing of economic interests, what room will there be for virtue? When Nature has been so subjugated that she has lost all her original forms, where will that leave the plastic arts? And so on. In the mean time, things are going to get very murky.”
– Gustave Flaubert
“No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”
– H. L. Mencken
“I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.”
– Harry Houdini
“It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose your own.”
– Harry S. Truman
“I advise everybody not to save: spend your money. Most people save all their lives and leave it to somebody else. Money is to be enjoyed.”
– Hedy Lamarr
“After you’re older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.”
– Helen Gurley Brown
“I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.”
– Henny Youngman
“A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.”
– Henry A. Wallace
“Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”
– Henry Ford
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