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  • Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

    -Woody pseudonym of  Allen Stewart Konigsberg Allen
      Without Feathers,'Early Essays'.

  • Os guerreiros de ca   na‹  o buscam mavo  rticas damas para o enlace epitala"  mico; mas antes as preferem do  ceis e facilmente troca v eis por pequeninas e vola  teis folhas de papel a que o vulgo chamara   dinheiroo 'curriculum vitae'da Civiliza c° a‹  o. The warriors here do not seek out mettlesome women for epithalamic conjunction, but prefer them docile and willing to exchange with ease their favours for those small and deliquescent leaves of paper which the masses call moneythe curriculum vitae of Civilization.

    - Ma r io de Andrade
      Macuna|  ma (O Hero  i sem nenhum cara  ter) (Macunaima, 1984), ch.9.

  • Feoh byth frofur fira gehwylcum Sceal theah manna gehwylc miclun hyt d×lan. Money is a comfort to each man, But everyone should nevertheless give it away freely.

    -Anonymous
    ?c.900  The Rune Poem, l.1^2.

  • To the Glorious,Pious, and Immortal Memory of King William theThird,Prince of Orange, who delivered us from Popes and Popery, Knaves and Knavery, Slaves and Slavery, Brass Money, and Wooden Shoes, and He that Will Not Take thisToast May He Be Damn'd,Cramm'd, and Jamm'd Down the Great Gun of Athlone, and the Gun Fired in the Pope's Belly, and the Pope Fired in the Devil's Belly, and the Devil Fired into Hell, and the Door Lock'd, and the Key Forever in the Pocket of a Stout Orangeman. And Here's a Fart for the Bishop of Cork!

    -Anonymous
    c.1890  'The Orange Toast', traditional Protestant Irish.

  •    Dieu est avec tout le monde† Et, en fin de compte, il est toujours avec ceux qui ont beaucoup d'argent et de grosses arme  es. God is on everyone's side† And, in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.

    -Jean Anouilh
      L'Alouette ( The Lark).

  •    She had very nice feet and plenty of money.

    - Daisy Mary Margaret Ashford
      TheYoung Visiters, or Mr Salteena's Plan, ch.12.

  • 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 practising it.

    -W(ystan) H(ugh) Auden
      The Dyer's Hand, foreword.

  • Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.

    - Francis,Viscount St Albans Bacon
      Essays, no.15,'Of Seditions and Troubles'.

  • In the absence of money, we'll have to make do with talent.

    - Michael Balcon
    Quoted in David Puttnam Michael Balcon: The Pursuit of British Cinema (1984), preface.

  • Money, itturnedout, was exactly likesex, youthought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

    -James Arthur Baldwin
      'Black Boy Looks at the White Boy', in Esquire, May.

  • A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.

    -Jones
      'Tokenism', in Kulchur, spring issue.

  • He has all the qualities that go to the making of a leader of the Conservative Party. He is not stupid, but he is very dull. He is not eloquent, but he talks well. He is not honest, politically, but he is most evangelical.He has a Beckett little money, but not much. He always conforms to the party policy.

    -Baron
      Commenting on Sir Samuel Hoare's appointment as Foreign Secretary.

  • Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

    - Brendan Francis Behan
      The Rover, pt.2, act 3, sc.1.

  • Early in life,Duveen†noticed that Europe had plenty of art and America had plenty of money, and his entire astonishing career was the product of that simple observation.

    - S(amuel) N(athaniel) Behrman
      Duveen, ch.1.  Joseph Duveen was a highly successful US art dealer.

  • What is to prevent a daily newspaper from being made the greatest organ of social life? Books have had their daythe theatres have had their daythe temple of religion has had its day. A newspaper can be made to take the lead of all these in the great movements of human thought and of human civilisation. A newspaper can send more souls to Heaven, and save more from Hell, than all the churches or chapels in New Yorkbesides making money at the same time.

    -James Gordon, Snr Bennett
      In the NewYork Herald,19  Aug.

  • The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.

    -William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge
      Voluntary  Action, ch.12.

  • A feast ismade for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Ecclesiastes10:19.

  • Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. 104

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Isaiah 55:1^2.

  • Be not greedy to add money to money: but let it be as refuse in respect of our child.

    -Bible (Apocrypha)
    Tobit 5:18.

  • For the love of money is the root of all evil.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
      Timothy 6:10.

  • It ain't often that a man's reputashun outlasts his munny.

    -Josh pseudonym of  Henry Wheeler Shaw Billings
      Josh Billings, His Sayings, ch.39.

  • Entre nosotros el dinero ha hecho desaparecer ma  s preocupaciones de familia que en las viejas sociedades europeas. En e  stas hay lo que llaman aristocracia de dinero, que jama  s alcanza con su poder†a hacer olvidar enteramente la oscuridad de la cuna, al paso que en Chile†todo va cediendo su puesto a la riqueza. Among us, money has dissolved more worries than among ancient European societies. The latter have what they call the moneyed aristocracy, which, despite all its power, never gets to forget its humble origins; on the other hand, in Chile everything yields to wealth.

    - Alberto Blest Gana
      Mart|  n Rivas, ch.2 (translated1918).

  • For money has a power above The stars and fate, to manage love.

    - Samuel Butler
      Hudibras, pt.3, canto 3, l.1279^80.

  • As soon as anyart is pursued with a view to money, then farewell, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, all hope of genuine good work.

    - Samuel Butler
    Collected in H F  Jones (ed)  The Notebooks of Samuel Butler (1912).

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

    - Samuel Butler
    Collected in Further Extracts from the Notebooks (1934).

  • Britain has lived for too long on borrowed time, borrowed money, and even borrowed ideas.

    -Baron
      Quoted in the Observer, 3 Oct.

  • Money is how we keep the score in motor racing nowadays.

    - (Anthony) Colin Bruce Chapman
      Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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

    - G(ilbert) K(eith) Chesterton
      The Wisdom of Father Brown,'Paradise of  Thieves'.

  • Nervos belli, pecuniam infinitam. The sinews of war, unlimited money.

    -Cicero full name MarcusTullius Cicero
       BC  Fifth Philippic, ch.5.

  • When somebody tells you it is not a money problem, they're talking about somebody else's money.

    - Bill (William) Clinton
      In US A  Today, 20 Dec.

  • You could be a great musician, an innovative and important artist, but nobodycared if youdidn't makethe white people who were in control some money.

    - Miles Dewey, III Davis
      Autobiography, ch.10.

  • Gamp would certainly have drunk its little shoes right off its feet, as with our precious boy he did, and arterwards send the child a errand to sell his wooden leg for any money it 'ud fetch as matches in the rough, and bring it home in liquor.

    - CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
    ^4  Mrs Gamp. Martin Chuzzlewit, ch.25.

  •    New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself. To thinkof 'living'there was to reduce the miraculous to the mundane; one does not 'live'at Xanadu.

    -Joan Didion
      'Goodbye To  All That', collected in Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968).

  • A billion here, a billion there. Pretty soon it runs into real money.

    - Everett McKinley Dirksen
    Quoted in'Half a Trillionin Real Money', editorial in the NewYork Times, 2 Dec1979.

  • But Jesus, when you don't have any money the problem is food.When you have money, it's sex.When you have both it's health, you worryabout getting ruptured or something. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death.

    -J(ames) P(atrick) Donleavy
      The Ginger Man, ch.5.

  • Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.

    -J(ames) P(atrick) Donleavy
      In Playboy, May.

  • He that purchases a manor will think to have an exact survey of the land, but who thinks of taking so exact a survey of his conscience, how that money was got that purchased that manor? We call that a man's means, which he hath; but that is truly his means, what way he came by it.

    -John Donne
      Sermon preached at the funeral of Sir  William Cockayne, 12 Dec.

  • The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance money.

    - SirArthur Conan Doyle
      The Sign of Four, ch.2.

  • We're in the money, we're in the money We've got a lot of what it takes to get along.

    - Al Dubin
      From the song'We're in the Money'featuredin Gold Diggers of1933. Music by Harry Warren.

  • Aphorismsgive you more for your time and money than any other literary form.Only the poem comes near to it, but then most good poems either start off from an aphorism orarrive at one† Aphorisms and epigrams are the corner-stones of literaryart.

    - Louis Dudek
    Collected in Notebooks1960^1994 (1994).

  • The demi-monde does not represent the crowd of courtesans, but the class of declassed women† It is divided from that of honest women by public scandal, and divided from that of the courtesans by money.

    - Alexandre, fils Dumas
      On the first performance of his play La Dame aux came  lias, 20 Mar, the first recorded use of the phrase. Quoted in  Joanna Richardson The Courtesans (1967), p.227.

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

    -WilliamJames Durant
    Attributed.

  • The power of money is a distinctly male power. Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice. In the hands of women, money stays literal, count it out, it buys what it is worth or less. In the hands of men, money buys women, sex, status, dignity, esteem, recognition, loyalty, all manner of possibility.

    - Andrea Dworkin
    Pornography: Men Possessing Women.

  • Can anybody remember when the times were not hard, and money was not scarce?

    - RalphWaldo Emerson
      Society and Solitude,'Works and Days'.

  • No dog can go as fast as the money you bet on him. Flanagan theirheads, nomatterhowcharming a blufftheymay put up.

    - Bud stage name of Robert Winthrop Flanagan
    Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990). 1934  Tender is the Night, bk.3, ch.12. English  songwriting  team,  who  made  their  name  with  At  the Drop of a Hat (1956).

  • Her voice is full of money.

    - F(rancis) Scott Key Fitzgerald
      The Great Gatsby, ch.7.

  • They were careless people,Tom and Daisythey smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

    - F(rancis) Scott Key Fitzgerald
      The Great Gatsby, ch.9.

  • Gwine to run all night, Gwine to run all day, I'll bet my money on de bob-tail nag, Somebody bet on de bay.

    - Stephen Collins Foster
      'Camptown Races', chorus.

  • Nothing but Money, Is sweeter than Honey.

    - Benjamin Franklin
      Poor Richard's  Almanack,  Jun.

  •   Time is money.

    - Benjamin Franklin
      Advice to aYoung Tradesman.

  •    Much discussion of money involves a heavy overlay of priestly incantation.

    -John Kenneth Galbraith
      Money, p.4.

  • Thereligionof money istoday the onlyonewhichhasno unbelievers. Gay

    -The  ophile Gautier
    s  On the France of the Second Republic. Quoted in  Joanna Richardson The Courtesans (1967), p.2.

  • Money, wife, is the true fuller's earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out.

    -John Gay
      The Beggar's Opera, act1, sc.9.

  • If you can actually count your money, then you are not really a rich man.

    -Jean Paul Getty
      In the Observer, 3 Nov.

  • Whatever the economic value of the domestic industry of women is, they do not get it. The women who do the most work get the least money, and the women who have the most money do the least work.

    -Gilman and Charlotte Perkins Stetson
      Women and Economics:  A Study of the Economic Relation between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution, ch.1.

  • I have the most reliable friend that you can have in American politicsready money.

    - Phil (William Philip) Gramm
      On seeking presidential nomination. In the NewYork Times, 23  Apr.

  • If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.

    - Robert von Ranke Graves
      Speech at London School of Economics, 6 Dec.

  • They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn't name its price.

    - (Henry) Graham Greene
      The Heart of the Matter, bk.1, pt.1, ch.2, iii.

  • He remembered poor Julian and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, 'The very rich are different from you and me.'And somebody had said to Julian,'Yes, they have more money.' See Fitzgerald 325:3.

    - Ernest Millar Hemingway
      'The Snows of Kilimanjaro', in Esquire,  Aug. In the original version'Julian' was named as F Scott Fitzgerald, but the pseudonym was used for book publication in The Fifth Column and Other Stories (1938).

  • Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain. Fancy giving money to the Government! Nobody will see the stuff again.

    - SirA(lan) P(atrick) Herbert
      'Too Much!'.

  •    The opening-night audience is mostly friends of the cast and backers of the show, and they cometo applaud their money.

    - Al Hirschfeld
      In the NewYork Times, 21  Jun.

  • Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

    - Oliver Wendell Holmes
    ^8  The Autocrat of the Breakfast  Table, ch.2.

  • A wonderful timethe War: when money rolled in and blood rolled out.

    - (James Mercer) Langston Hughes
      'Green Memory'.

  • We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too!

    - G W Hunt
      Music-hall song, inspired by Disraeli's speech of 9 Nov1876 threatening Russia with war if it sent volunteers into Serbia and Montenegro. This is the origin of 'jingoism'.

  • The real pitch lake is simply about two hundred asphalt tennis courts, in very bad condition, set in the midst of somegently undulating greenmeadows.Iam inclined to ask for my money back.

    - Aldous Leonard Huxley
      On the Trinidad Pitch Lake. Beyond the Mexique Bay.

  •    We all know how the size of sums of money appears to vary in a remarkable wayaccording as they are being paid in or paid out.

    - SirJulian Sorell Huxley
      Essays of a Biologist, ch.5.

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

    - Henry James
    Gilbert Osmond. The Portrait of a Lady, ch.35.

  • We've dominated sports and we've dominated entertainment, but our problem has been we've never been able to dominate money.We still don't own our share of business, and it's killing us. It's killing our communities.

    - Earvin ('Magic') Johnson
      On  African  Americans. Quoted in Los  Angeles Magazine, Oct.

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

    - Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
      Remark, 27 Mar. Collected in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.2. This is sometimes rendered'A man is seldom so innocently occupied as when he is making money.'

  • No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.

    - Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
      Remark, 5  Apr. Quoted in  James Boswell  The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.3.

  • Sir,Ihavetwoverycogent reasonsfornot printing any list of subscribers;one, that Ihave lost all thenames,the other, that I have spent all the money.

    - Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
      Remark, May. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.4.

  • Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money.

    - Ben Jonson
    Timber: or Discoveries made upon Men and Matter (published 1640).

  • It's what God would have done if he'd had the money.

    - George S(imon) Kaufman
    On visiting Pocantico Hills, the Rockefeller family's 3,000-acre Hudson River estate. Quoted in Michael Kramer and Sam Roberts I Never Wanted to Be Vice-President of  Anything! (1976).

  • With the money I spent I could have elected my chauffeur.

    -Joseph Patrick Kennedy
    Of his contributions to  John F Kennedy's presidential campaign. Quoted in Nigel Hamilton JFK: RecklessYouth (1992).

  • I've had a tough time learning how to act like a Congressman. Today I accidentally spent some of my own money.

    -Joseph P(atrick) II Kennedy
      In Newsweek, 9 Feb.

  • And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame; And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame, But each for the joy of working, and each, in his separate star, Shall draw theThing ashesees It for the God of Things as They are!

    - (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
      'When Earth's Last Picture is Painted'.

  • One does not own to the possession of money in India.

    - (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
    Kim, ch.11.

  • Nothing has conduced more to shake that decent respect for the living symbol of thestatethat goes by the name of royalty than the ever-recurring rattle of the money box.

    - Henry Du Pre Labouche'  re
      In the Fortnightly Review, Feb.

  • J'avoue bien que l'argent ne fait pas le bonheur; mais il faut avouer aussi qu'il le facilite beaucoup. I will admit that money does not bring happiness, but it must also be admitted that it facilitates much. 484

    - Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos
      Les Liaisons dangereuses, letter104.

  • If the husband be a man with whom you have lived on a friendly footing before marriage,if you did not come inonthewife'sside,if youdid not sneak intothehouse in her train, but were an old friend in first habits of intimacy before their courtship was so much as thought on,look about you† Every long friendship, every old authentic intimacy, must be brought into their office to be new stamped with their currency, as a sovereign Prince calls in the good old money that was coined in some reign before he was born or thought of, to be new marked and minted with the stamp of his authority, before he will let it pass current in the world.

    - Charles Lamb
      Essays of Elia,'A Bachelor's Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People'.

  • You can't put off being young until you retire, And however you bank your screw, the money you save Won't in the end buy you more than a shave.

    - Philip Arthur Larkin
      'Money'.

  • Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

    - Stephen Butler Leacock
      The Garden of Folly,'The Perfect Salesman'.

  • The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat. They took some honey, and plenty of money, Wrapped up in a five-pound note. The Owl looked up to the Stars above And sang to a small guitar, 'Oh lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love, What a beautiful Pussy you are'.

    - Edward Lear
    Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and  Alphabets,'The Owl and the Pussy-Cat'.

  • For I don't care too much for money, For money can't buy me love.

    -Paul
      'Can't Buy Me Love'.

  •    I don't like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves.

    -Joe pseudonym of  Joseph Louis Barrow Louis
    Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

  • Writing a best-seller with conscious intent to do so is, afterall, a state of mind that isnot without comparisonto the act of marrying for money only to discover that the absence of love is more onerous that anticipated.

    - Norman Kingsley Mailer
       The Spooky  Art: Some Thoughts on Writing.

  • The Film Industry is the American Monarchy: it is strict entailed succession and Horatio Alger in one. Except for the money manipulators and speculators on the top, it is a society built onwork, achievement, and fealty tothose in power.

    - David Alan Mamet
      Writing in Restaurants,'Observations of a Backstage Wife'.

  • No one in this world, so far as I knowand I have searched the record for years, and employed agents to help mehas ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

    - H(enry) L(ouis) Mencken
      'Notes on  Journalism' in the Chicago Sunday Tribune,19 Sep. The phrase is commonly quoted as'No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the  American people.'

  • The price was quite reasonable. It just happened to be a lot of money.

    - Edward H Merrin
      In the NewYork Times,16  Jul. On paying $2.09 million for a nine-inch, 5,000-year-old Greek head.

  • Money couldn't buy friends but you got a better class of enemy.

    - Spike Milligan
      Puckoon, ch.6.

  • Today musicians listen to see who makes the most money on a style, and then they set to copying him. And they don't copy the ones that are beautiful, creative and good.

    - Charles Mingus
      Interview in Enstice and Rubin Jazz Spoken Here (1992).

  •    To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.

    - Mary Russell Mitford
      Letter to R B Haydon, 24  Aug.

  • The Swiss are inspired hotel-keepers. Some centuries since, when thestranger strayed into one oftheir valleys, their simple forefathers would kill him and share out the little money he might have about him. Now they know better. They keep him alive and writing cheques.

    - Lady Mary Wortley ne  e Pierrepoint Montagu
      The Right Place.

  • I do not write for money or fame† One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensible to one's happiness to express.

    - Marianne Craig Moore
      Ewing Lecture, University of California, 3 Oct.

  • For where money is the standard of everything, many vain, superfluous trades are bound to be carried on simply to satisfy luxuryand licentiousness.

    - SirThomas More
      Utopia (English translation1556), bk.2.

  • I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance†was a neat idea.

    - Oliver North
       Testimony at the House Committee investigating arms sales to Iran, 8  Jul.

  • Women Whose Lives Are Food, Men Whose Lives Are Money.

    -Myles na Gopaleen
       Title of poetry collection.

  • What is the main problem of the actor? It is to keep the audience awake, and not let them go to sleep, then wake up and go home feeling they've wasted their money.

    - Laurence Kerr, Baron Olivier
    Attributed.

  • The era of free speech is closing down. The freedom of the press in Britain was always something of a fake, because in the last resort, money controls opinion; still, so long asthe legal right tosay what you like exists, there are always loopholes for an unorthodox writer.

    - George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair Orwell
      In the New Leader, 24  Jun.

  • To blame someone like Northcliffe for making money in the quickest way is like blaming a skunk for stinking.

    - George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair Orwell
      In the Tribune, 21  Apr.

  • A silk suit, which cost memuchmoney, and Ipray God to make me able to pay for it.

    - Samuel Pepys
      Diary entry,1 Jul.

  • But it is pretty to see what money will do.

    - Samuel Pepys
      Diary entry, 21 Mar. US  novelist.  His  best-known  work  of  fiction  is The  Moviegoer (1961),  but  he  wrote  several  novels,  and  volumes  of  collected essays and non-fiction.

  • It is well known that, when two or three authors meet, theyat once start talking about moneylike everyone else.

    - Sir V(ictor) S(awdon) Pritchett
      In TheAuthor, Spring.

  •    You pays your moneyand you takes your choice.

    -Punch

  • Il avait soixante et trois manie'  res d'en trouver toujours a' son besoin, dont la plus honorable et la plus commune e  tait par fa c° on de larcin furtivement fait. He had sixty-three ways to find the money when he needed it, the most honourable and most ordinary of which was to steal secretively.

    - Fran c° ois Rabelais
      Pantagruel, bk.2, ch.16.

  • We don't know where that money came from and we don't know who had it and we don't know where it went.

    - Ronald Wilson Reagan
      Of the Iran^Contra funding. In the NewYorkTimes,17 Mar.

  • 'My boy,' he says,'always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.'

    - (Alfred) Damon Runyon
    Guys and Dolls,'A Very Honourable Guy'.

  • The consumer, so it is said, is the king†each is a voter who uses his money as votes to get the things done that he wants done.

    - Paul Anthony Samuelson
      Economics.

  • At last America is in my view; a dreary waste of white barren sand, and melancholy, nodding pines. In the course of many miles, no cheerful cottage has blest my eyes. All seems dreary, savage and desert; and was it for this such sums of money, such streams of British blood have been lavished away? Oh, thou dear land, how dearly hast thou purchased this habitation for bears and wolves. Dearly has it been purchased, and at a price far dearer still it will be kept. My heart dies within me, while I view it.

    -Janet   b.c.1730 Schaw
    c.1776  On her first sight of the country around Cape Fear. Journal of a Lady of Quality; BeingtheNarrative of aJourney from Scotland to theWest Indies, North Carolina, and Portugal, in the years1774 to1776.

  • No one ever complains if a great artist says that he was driven to create a masterpiece by a hunger for recognition and money.But a scientist? Well, he ismeant to be disinterested, pure, his ambition merely to descry the cement of the universe. He isn't meant to use it to start laying his own patio.

    -Will Self
    The QuantityTheory of Insanity and Five Supporting Propositions,'The QuantityTheory of Insanity'.

  • 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.

    - George Bernard Shaw
      The Irrational Knot, preface.

  • There's almost as many different sorts of marriage as there's different sorts of people. There's the young things that marry for love, not knowing what they're doing, and the old things that marry for moneyand comfort and companionship. There's the people that marry for children. There's the people that don't intend to have children and that aren't fit to have them. There's the peoplethat marry becausethey're so much run after by the other sex that they have to put a stop to it somehow. There's the people that want to trya new experience, and the people that want to have done with experiences.

    - George Bernard Shaw
      Bill Collins. Getting Married.

  • That's the difference between us.You talk of art Mr Goldwyn, I think of money.

    - George Bernard Shaw
    To Samuel Goldwyn. Quoted in David Niven Bring on the Empty Horses (1975).

  • Thereal priceofeverything, whateverything reallycosts to themanwho wants to acquire it, isthetoil and trouble of acquiring it. Labour was the first price, the original purchase money that was paid for all things.

    - Adam Smith
      An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of theWealth of Nations, bk.1, ch.5.

  • There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.

    - Adam Smith
      An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of theWealth of Nations, bk.5, ch.2.

  • Quand une fois on a tourne   l'enthousiasme en ridicule, on a tout de  fait, excepte   l'argent et le pouvoir. Once we have made enthusiasm ridiculous, there is nothing left but money and power.

    - Germaine Necker, Baronne de Stae«  l
      Corinne ou de l'Italie.

  • It gave me a great notion of the credit of our present government and administration, to find people press as eagerly to pay moneyas they would to receive it; and, at the same time, a due respect for that body of men who have found out so pleasing an expedient for carrying on the common cause, that they have turned a tax into a diversion.

    - Gertrude Stein
      On the first state lottery of1710. In theTatler, no.124, 24 Jan.

  • Money is a kind of poetry.

    -Wallace Stevens
    Quoted in Harper's, Oct1985.

  • But I knaw'd a Quaa«  ker feller as often 'as towd ma this: 'Doa«  nt thou marry for munny, but goa«   wheer munny is!'

    -Tennyson
      'Northern Farmer. New Style', stanza 5.

  •    What money is better bestowed than that of a school- boy's tip?

    -William Makepeace Thackeray
    ^5  The Newcomes, vol.1, ch.16.

  • ATV licence is a licence to print money.

    - Roy Herbert, 1st BaronThomson of Fleet Thomson
      On being awarded the licence to operate Scottish Television Ltd,19 Jun. Recalled in his memoirs After I Was Sixty (1975).

  • Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them.

    - Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens Twain
    The Bee (published1917).

  • Everybody in America is so money-hungry. It's like a rat race and even when you win you're still a freaking rat.

    - Mike Tyson
      In TheTimes, Dec 26.

  • Sex is like money; only too much is enough.

    -John Hoyer Updike
      Couples, ch.5.

  • The desire to make money is a symptom of all sorts of emotional disturbancesgreed is only one of them.

    -Janwillem van deWetering
      The Maine Massacre.

  • Pecunia non olet. Money does not smell.

    -Vespasian full name Titus FlaviusVespasianus
    Attributed. His sonTitus had objected to a tax on the contents of the city's urinals (used by fullers).Vespasian held a coin toTitus's nose, asking him whether it smelled.WhenTitus said no he replied'Atqui e lotio est' ('And yet, it comes from urine'). Quoted in SuetoniusVespasian, 23.

  • The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else.But the fact is, you got to give 'em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.

    - Alice Malsenior Walker
      Pa.The Color Purple.

  • Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.

    - Artemus pseudonym of  Charles Farrar Browne Ward
      ArtemusWard in London, and Other Papers,'Science and Natural History'.

  • The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing to dowith capitalism.Thisimpulse exists among waiters, physicians, coachmen, artists, prostitutes, dishonest officials, soldiers, nobles, crusaders, gamblers, and beggars.One may say that it has been common to all sorts and conditions of men at all times and in all cultures of the earth, wherever the objective possibility of it is or has been given.

    - Max Weber
    ^5  The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (translated byTalcott Parsons,1930).

  • Christianity is really a man's religion: there's not much in it for women except docility, obedience, who-sweeps- the-room-as-for-thy-cause, downcast eyes and death in childbirth. For the men it's better: all power and money and fine robes, the burning of the hereticsfun, fun, fun!and the Inquisition fulminating from the pulpit.

    - Fay originally Franklin Birkinshaw Weldon
      The Heart of the Country,'LoveYour Enemy'.

  • The nation suspects that the regular ministerial majorities in Parliament are bought, and that the Crown hasmadea purchase oftheHousewiththemoneyofthe people. Hence the ready, tame and servile compliance to every royal verdict issued by Lord North† It is almost universally believed that this debt has been contracted in corrupting the representatives of the people.

    - Samuel Whitbread
      House of Commons,16 Apr.

  •    What the federal government does basically is borrow money from people and mail it to people.

    - George Will
      Of entitlement programs. ABC TV broadcast,19 Sep.

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

    -TennesseeThomas Lanier Williams
      Maggie. Cat on a HotTin Roof, act1.

  • When women breached the power structure in the 1980s†two economies finally merged. Beauty was no longer just a symbolic form of currency: it literally became money.

    - Naomi Wolf
      The Beauty Myth, ch.2 'Work'.

  • Awoman must have moneyand a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

    - (Adeline) Virginia ne  e Stephen Woolf
      A Room of One's Own, ch.1.

  • Just what God would do if he had the money.

    - Alexander Humphreys Woollcott
    On being shown round Moss Hart's splendid country retreat. Attributed.

  • Rising prices or wages do not cause inflation; they only report it. They represent an essential form of economic speech, sincemoney isjust another form of information.

    -Walter Bigelow Wriston
      Risk and Other Four-LetterWords.

  •   'Tis ashard tobe a good fellow, a good friend, and a lover of women, as 'tistobe agood fellow, agood friend, and a lover of money.

    -William Wycherley
      The CountryWife, act1, sc.1.

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

    - Emil Zatopek
    Quoted by Christopher Brasher in the Observer,12 Sep1982.

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