Money Quotes

It is time that financial types developed a greater tolerance for imprecision, because that?s the way the world is.

John C. Burton

But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

George MacDonald

The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

Jean de la Bruyere

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Henry Fielding

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

Henry Fielding

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.

Henry Fielding

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Henry Fielding

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Francis Bacon

No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.

Francis Bacon

Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

Francis Bacon

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

Francis Bacon

If you really believe that you're making a difference and that you can leave a legacy of better schools and jobs and safer streets, why would you not spend the money? The objective is to improve the schools, bring down crime, build affordable housing, clean the streets - not to have a fair fight.

Michael Bloomberg

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

Anton Chekhov

It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just don't operate that way.

Jim Garrison

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

William Feather

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.

Gertrude Stein

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Gertrude Stein

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Kahlil Gibran

One man's wage rise is another man's price increase.

Harold Wilson

Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

Earl Wilson