“Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money — or the want of money; but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.”

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The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part II - Elementary Morality

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novelist 1835–1902

Laura Penny (1975) Canadian journalist

Source: More Money than Brains (2010), Chapter Four, Screw U or Hate My Professors, p. 131

“It takes brains to make money, but any dam fool can inherit. P. S.: I never inherited any money.”

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul

Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 10.

“To walk in money through the night crowd, protected by money, lulled by money, dulled by money, the crowd itself a money, the breath money, no least single object anywhere that is not money, money, money everywhere and still not enough, and then no money or a little money or less money or more money, but money, always money, and if you have money or you don't have money it is the money that counts and money makes money, but what makes money make money?”

Henry Miller book Tropic of Capricorn

Tropic of Capricorn (1939)

“Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money.”

Gregory Bateson (1904–1980) English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician and cyberneticist

Source: Mind and Nature, a necessary unity, 1988, p. 56

“Money follows art. Money wants what it can't buy. Class and talent. And remember while there's a talent for making money, it takes real talent to know how to spend it.”

Candace Bushnell book One Fifth Avenue

Source: One Fifth Avenue

“Always try to rub against money, for if you rub against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.”

Damon Runyon (1880–1946) writer

A Very Honorable Guy

“Money money money money money money money money money. Let no one say it has no place in a love story. It has a particular place. It is something on the right shelf.”

Daniel Handler book Adverbs

Adverbs (2006), Arguably

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

Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist

Source: Erewhon (1872), Ch. 20

“Money and muscle, that’s what I want; to be able to do any damned thing I want and get away with it. Money won’t do that altogether, because if a man is a weakling, all the money in the world won’t enable him to soak an enemy himself; on the other hand, unless he has money he may not be able to get away with it.”

Robert E. Howard (1906–1936) American author

From a letter to Harold Preece (c. June 1928)
Letters

“Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.”

Sophocles (-496–-406 BC) ancient Greek tragedian

Source: Antigone, Line 295

“Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money — or the want of money; but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.”

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