Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

money

A fool and his money are soon elected.

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

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.

If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.

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

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

We have the best government that money can buy.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

Brigands demand your money or your life women require both.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.

I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there.

The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.

The want of money is the root of all evil.

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.

What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.

You reach a point where you don't work for money.

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.

A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.

A fool and her money are soon courted.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Almost anyone can be an author the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.

Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

I can't afford to die I'd lose too much money.

I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm singing now is what makes the money.

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.

Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.

Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

Remember that credit is money.

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Time is money.

What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.

When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.

Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.

Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.

When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

If the money's right, I'll do a film.

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

Money is always there but the pockets change it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

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.

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.

Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock.

If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.

It's a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money's worth.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.

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

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.

For I can raise no money by vile means.

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.

It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.

Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.

Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.

What is there that money will not do?

When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.

A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.

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

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.

Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.

I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead.

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.

It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.

Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.

Money often costs too much.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

What counts is what you do with your money, not where it came from.

All money is a matter of belief.

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.

I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

I've seen the ticket, and I still can't believe it. When I see the money, I hope I don't hit the floor.

Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.

Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.

No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.

I'm tired of love I'm still more tired of rhyme but money gives me pleasure all the time.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

Money is a poor man's credit card.

Money is just the poor man's credit card.

Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.

That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'.

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.

Work isn't to make money you work to justify life.

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.

Marriage, like money, is still with us and, like money, progressively devalued.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying then without money?

Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.

I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.

If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?

If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Spare no expense to save money on this one.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket.

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.

And also there wasn't much money in television in those days anyhow.

Bargain... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

I'm hopeless with money I simply spend what I've got.

It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.

It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary that money should love you.

Men make counterfeit money in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

No woman marries for money they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

When a fellow says, 'It ain't the money but the principle of the thing,' it's the money.

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Friendship and money: oil and water.

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.

Money just draws flies.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

No man's credit is as good as his money.

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

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.

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money.