Quotes about money

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“You'd be surprised what people will do for money that they wouldn't do for
love.

Myrnin.”

“Justice is expensive. That is why there is so little of it, and it is reserved for those few with enough money and influence to afford it.”

“I burn the way money burns.”

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum.”

“They've spent alot of money on me. I'm ashamed.”

“Travel is never a matter of money but of courage”

“The only reason any person does not have enough money is because they are blocking money from coming to them with their thoughts.”

“Time can't be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.”

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

“I have a renewed commitment to elegance, she said, in case you think I'm just spending money for the fun of it.”

“Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them.”

“Money problems can always be solved by a man not frightened by them.”

“That machine took my money!' I said. 'I must have revenge!”

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

“Love, it turns out, is as undemocratic as money, so it accumulates around people who have plenty of it already: the sane, the healthy, the lovable.”

“I don't get why prom is like a mini-wedding these days… No one should spend that kind of money for a high school dance.”

“I don't really need a job or extra money. After Rose and I get married, the kids and I'll just live off of her guardian paycheck.”

“I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I’m greedy for an exciting life.”

“Good friends are hard to come by.. I need more money.”

“… some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.”

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

“she took pictures of germs, viruses, and people reacting to germs and viruses. On weekends, for extra money, she photographed weddings, which really wasn't that much of a stretch”

“Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.”

“But money or no money we're all searching for the same things aren't we It doesn't matter who you are or how much money you have. Love and happiness that's what it's all about”

“But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.”

“While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.”

“Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds.”

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”

“Money to me had always been merely something the sheep used to show each other how wonderful they were.”

“You don’t like people who have money, do you? (Astrid)
I’m not prejudiced against anyone, princess. I hate everyone equally. (Zarek)”

“I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.”

“A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.”

“If she wanted my money, I'd give her every cent. If she wanted another man, I'd make her forget him”

“Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.”

“They say money talks, but all mine ever says is 'good-bye sucker.”

“It never seemed fair that just when you're old enough to do anything you want, you can't. You have to start working, so there's no time. And if there is time, you're not working, so there's no money.”

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

You might as well say that the only way not to think about air is to have enough to breathe.”

“They have money and position and Ann has none. It's amazing how often you can be right as long as you have those two things working in your favor.”

“Finding your passion isn't just about careers and money. It's about finding your authentic self. The one you've buried beneath other people's needs.”

“I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things?”

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

“Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes.”

“Disagreements over money are the biggest cause of divorce."

She waved her hand. "Absolutely no problem. Your money is our money. My money is my money." She wrote away.

"I should make you negotiate with Phoebe.”

“History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling the money and its issuance.”

“All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.”

“When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.”

“Unfortunately most ways of making big money take a long time. By the time one has made the money one is too old to enjoy it.”

“I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news”

“After all, people judge one another according to their own feelings. It is only the miser who sees other enticed by money, the lustful who see others obsessed by desire.”

“Jesus, Morelli, you sound like you have PMS. You have to learn to lighten up a little. It's just a car alarm. You should be thanking me. I had it installed with my own money.”

“Do what you love.
Do what makes your heart sing.
And NEVER do it for the money,
Go to work to spread joy.”

“That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: it said, 'goodbye”

“Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.”

“Money can't buy happiness but it can buy a huge yacht that sails right next to it.”

“all the time something within her was crying for a decision.
She wanted her life shaped now, immediately — and the decision must be made by some force — of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality — that was close at hand”

“Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.”

“Money. It's a good servant but a bad master.”

“There will never be a good time, financially, to get married, unless you're Shaq or Ray Romano. But somehow people manage. If your man is using money as an excuse not to marry you, it's your relationship that's insecure, not his bank account.”

“Money doesn't talk, it swears.”

“The future could go this way, that way. The future's futures have never looked so rocky. Don't put money on it. Take my advice and stick to the present. It's the real stuff, the only stuff, it's all there is, the present, the panting present.”

“You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.”

“When money's tight and is hard to get
And your horse has also ran,
When all you have is a heap of debt
A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.”

“There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection.”

“I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it.”

“You should've just gotten a kids' meal.' Adrian told me, pointing to my half-eaten burger and fries. 'You could've saved me a lot of money. And gotten a toy.”

“I know what a park bench is and the landlord's knock. There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.”

“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.”

“No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they owe you. I don't like to owe anybody anything, so I keep to myself as much on the lending side as I can.”

“I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn't have the money and I didn't have the woman.”

“Humans were so stupid. They had something so precious, and they barely safeguarded it at all. They threw away their lives for money, for packets of powder, for a stranger's charming smile.”

“A fool and his money are soon elected.”

“A budget is telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went.”

“I guess money can't buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places.”

“Love flies out the door when money comes innuendo.”

“Conservatives say if you don't give the rich more money, they will lose their incentive to invest. As for the poor, they tell us they've lost all incentive because we've given them too much money.”

“No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”

“She reached into her coat pocket and felt two things she hadn't expected…. One was a wad of cash… she brought out the money. Leo whistled. "Allowance? Piper, your mom rocks!”

“Old lady judges watch people in pairs
Limited in sex, they dare
To push fake morals, insult and stare
While money doesn't talk, it swears
Obscenity, who really cares
Propaganda, all is phony.”

“Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency.”

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

“If we can't respect the way we earn it, money has no value. If we can't use it to make life better for our families and loved ones, money has no purpose.”

“Politics is not about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives”

“Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.”

“I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here… rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness… give me truth.”

“Do you always throw your money away like this?"

"Only when I'm in love”

“Beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men;”

“There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.”

“We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.”

“The loony legacy of money was that the arithmetic by which things were measured had become more valuable than the things themselves.”

“Why couldn’t they just give the human female a bag of money and then pee on the building so that everyone would know it was theirs?”

“Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.”

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

“Shall I turn up the light for you?

No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.”

“I took Sin on faith, but if faith were money, fools would be billionaires.”

“Money talks, bullshit walks.”

“Certainly there are things in life that money can’t buy, but it’s very funny –
Did you ever try buying them without money.”

“The man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.”

“The only good thing I've ever noticed about money, the only positive aspect of an otherwise pretty vulgar commodity, is that you can use it to buy things.”

“As I get older I find that the friendships that are the most certain, ultimately, are the ones where you and the other person have made substantial amounts of money for one another.”