Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

To give money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in everyman's power nor an easy matter.

Aristotle

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Oscar Wilde

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

Henry Ford

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Sophocles

Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

Horace Mann

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Charles Dickens

If money is the root of all evil, then why do we have to have jobs?

Matt Groening

What good is money if it can't inspire terror in your fellow man?

Matt Groening

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

Benjamin Franklin

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

Scott Westerfeld

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

The darkest day in a man's career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a dollar than by squarely earning it.

Horace Greeley

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Samuel Butler

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

G. K. Chesterton

He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Lawana Blackwell

If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.

Edgar Watson Howe

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.

Wilbur Wright

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

Jonathan Swift

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.

Henry David Thoreau

The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight-of-hand that was ever invented. Banking was conceived in inequity and born in sin... But if you want to continue to be slaves of the bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let the bankers continue to create money and control credit .

Josiah Charles Stamp

Money is the power of the impotent.

Leon Samson

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.

Louisa May Alcott

My money's riding on this dark horse, baby My heart is sayin' it's the lucky one And its true color's gonna shine through someday If we let this Let this dark horse run.

Amanda Marshall

The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Evan Esar

Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

Roger Starr

Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.

Marya Mannes

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal

You don't have to die in order to make a living.

Lynn Johnston

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.

W. Somerset Maugham

For the loot, honey, for the loot.

Ava Gardner

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

Bill Vaughn

Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.

Satchel Paige

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Donald Trump

A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

Sir Thomas More

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman.

George Gissing

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

E e cummings

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

Damon Runyon

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'

Alfred Hitchcock

'If I had all the money I'd spent on drink, I'd spend it on drink.'

Vivian Stanshall

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Ken Hakuta

Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

I'm staggered by the question of what it's like to be a multimillionaire. I always have to remind myself that I am.

Bruce Willis

Money and Corruption Are ruining the land Crooked politicians Betray the working man, Pocketing the profits And treating us like sheep, And we're tired of hearing promises That we know they'll never keep.

Ray Davies

When I had money, everyone called me brother.

Polish Proverb

Money is a kind of poetry.

Wallace Stevens

Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Ernest Haskins

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Senator Everett Dirksen

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

George Eliot

That most delicious of all privileges - spending other people's money.

John Randolph

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

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

George M. Humphrey

Send lawyers, guns and money, the shit has hit the fan.

Warren Zevon

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

Jean Paul Getty

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

Edith Wharton

There is more money wasted in advertising by underspending than by overspending. Years ago someone said that underspending in advertising is like buying a ticket halfway to Europe. You've spent your money but you never get there.

Morris Hite

Doctors coin money when they do procedures but family medicine doesn't have any procedures.

Dr. David Jones

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Rita Rudner

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Groucho Marx

To him, money was like the toy bank notes in Monopoly: he wanted it, not for what it could buy, but because it was needed to play the game.

Ken Follet

My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

Glenda Jackson

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

Errol Flynn

Money grows on the tree of persistence.

Japanese Proverb

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

W. Somerset Maugham

I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles

I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.

April Foiles

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Whitehorn

You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather.

Chuck Tanner

When a person with money meets a person with experience, the person with the experience winds up with the money and the person with the money winds up with the experience.

Harvey Mackay

Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Julius Rosenwald

If I had a large amount of money I should found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is so tenuous that they can be severely offended by words and phrases yet remain all unoffended by the injustice, violence and oppression that howls daily.

Stephen Fry

The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.

Marcel Achard

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

Theodore H. White

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

Bill Vaughn

When I have money, I get rid of it quickly, lest it find a way into my heart.

John Wesley

I doubt that we Americans can come to terms with our money neuroses without understanding the more florid pathology of the very rich for it is our envy and admiration of the rich that supports their habit and keeps us hooked ourselves.

Philip Slater

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

Henry Youngman

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Leo Rosten

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

Spike Milligan

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

W. Somerset Maugham

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

Dorothy Parker

I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.

Mark Twain

Millions of dollars' worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader's intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult.

James Randolph Adams

People are too darn myopic about making money and they get disappointed fast. If they haven't sold enough flowers they say: 'I'm out of here.'

Larry Chase

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

H. L. Mencken

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

Clarence Day

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy.

Izaak Walton

I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money.

David Lee Roth

The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

Johnny Carson

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

Sir Henry Taylor

The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.

Mike Tatum

Money is like a sixth sense - and you can't make use of the other five without it.

William Somerset Maugham

Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.

A. P. Herbert

Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.

Rebecca Johnson

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Jane Austen

Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.

Will Smith

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Michael Pritchard

Nothing that costs only a dollar is not worth having.

Elizabeth Arden

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

Earl Warren

To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

George Bernard Shaw

The love of money is the root of all virtue.

George Bernard Shaw

Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.

George Bernard Shaw

Only sick music makes money today.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What we once did 'for the sake of God' we now do for the sake of money.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When I was young, I thought money was the most important thing in life. Now, when I'm old, I know it is.

Oscar Wilde

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Henry Ford

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

Henry Ford

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

Henry Ford

Dance like it hurts, Love like you need money, Work when people are watching.

Scott Adams

Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.

Ann Landers

Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.

Sallust

If you would know the value of money, go try to borrow some; for he that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Desiderius Erasmus

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

Steve Jobs

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

Sir Francis Bacon

When someone says, 'It's not the money, it's the principle of the thing', it's the money.

Kin Hubbard

A woman will buy anything she thinks the store is losing money on.

Kin Hubbard

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

Samuel Butler

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

Albert Camus

Money buts many things...The best of which is freedom.

Mary Renault

The closer you are to your money, the better off you'll be.

Jason Fried

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

George F. Burns

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

George F. Burns

You know it's funny when it rains it pours They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor.

Tupac Shakur

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

Woody Allen

A good reputation is more valuable than money.

Publilius Syrus

We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.

Davy Crockett

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

Jules Renard

I don't have hobbies; hobbies cost money. Interests are quite free.

George Carlin

If my business could be made legal, I and women like me could make a big contribution to what Mayor Lindsay calls "Fun City," and the city and state could derive the money in taxes and licensing fees that I pay off to crooked cops and political figures.

Xaviera Hollander

It increases what we call the footprint. It gives us more reliable coverage in an area. That saves us money because it means we have to buy fewer access points. It's more flexible and cheaper to install.

Skip Morris

Spare no expense to save money on this one.

Samuel Goldwyn

The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security.

Bertrand Russell

We are spending a substantial amount of money on benefits.

Amy Hill

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

Samuel Johnson

The money was always going into Iraq.

Dominic Hogan

Money still talks these days! Trouble is, you have to increase the volume alot!

Alfred E. Neuman

Why is the man (or woman) who invests all your money called a broker?

George Carlin

They wouldn't have enough money to pay him.

David Justice

If the board isn't keeping the association informed and making decisions that are proper for the association, then a management company can't make those decisions or set the agenda or force them to spend money on things that need to be done.

James Strichartz

He came in my office one day and had this sheepish look on his face, like there was something on his mind. I had to coax it out of him. I told him if it was more money he wanted, then he should go.

Jeff Pyle

They have a very attractive candidate and the Republican Party will put a lot of money into this race. He'll have more than his Democratic opponent.

Larry Hufford

If we couldn't get our furniture, then we wanted our money.

Megan Snow

The issue now is whether the Legislature is willing to commit large amounts of money to ensure that language access services are provided.

James Hardway

We're glad we have the money this year. We certainly hope to get more money next year.

Stephanie Marquis

Hopefully, later on down the line we can play them again and give them a run for their money.

Jarrad Henry

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

Ogden Nash

It's alarming that a hedge-fund fraud of this magnitude could go on for so long. Most schemes like this finally blow up when the trader runs out of money.

Ross B. Intelisano

Citizens Against Government Waste would probably say that it would be a waste to waste our taxpayer money on a deputy for waste.

Jen Bluestein

We've decided that we will take a share of the money and donate it to charity.

Simon Horrocks

It isn't just about money.

Joe Ladish

College is the first time many kids have real control of their money. It's very hard to keep good track of your expenses when you're living alone for the first time.

Jacqueline King

It's Florida's best entertainment value, There's nowhere else you can get this much entertainment for the money.

Lizz Harmon

It's a simple process, but it can save a lot of money.

Joshua Johnson

I just think that's probably the way to go about it instead of spending all that money.

Dale Neal

We try to be the best defensive team that we can be. Our goal is to be the best defensive team in the league. We're not an offensive juggernaut by any stretch of the imagination. But, if we defend and rebound, we know we can be in every game. That's where we earn our money, on the defensive end.

Milan Brown

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

Henry David Thoreau

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.

Will Rogers

The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.

Ty Cobb

I've gotten no calls from Lake County Board members saying they want to spend that money for additional judges.

Terry Link

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

Henry David Thoreau

That goes for whites, too, ... If I made all this money and I want money invested here, I have a right to do that. That is my choice. That is why we live in America, because we have choices.

Jackie Joyner Kersee

So far, they are effective and appear to be saving VDOT money.

Stephanie Boyles

I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money.

Arthur Godfrey

When they're spending this much money, they want the ability to try it.

Jeff Hennion

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

Brendan Behan

In our area, they just don't have money or staff to run more than one shelter. They figured with its proximity to the interstate that the Monroe Conference Center was the logical place.

Scott Henderson

I ran out of money. They sent us our long (program) outfits but. . . they're holding our short program ones until we pay for them both.

Garrett Lucash

Art for art's sake, money for God's sake.

Simon Raven

But no, the record industry refused to embrace the idea and so what happens is, people just go ahead and do it anyway, which means there is less and less money going into the industry.

Rick Wakeman

The money situation doesn't really change the dynamic too much.

Kent Redfield

Quite honestly, I feel like we might of had some money in hand if we'd had a consultant.

Randal Turner

First and foremost, money. Some of these A-list coaches that are out there right now are going to command huge salaries -- well over $1 million.

Tony Haynes

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

J. Edgar Hoover

Money is a powerful aphrodisiac. But flowers work almost as well.

Robert A. Heinlein

There is a lot of money going into home real estate, and home improvement runs in step with that.

Donald Trott

We need the money. This all came about because the Minority Health Coalition closed, but there was still the need.

Renetta Williams

You can make a lot of money. One day you have to hang up your shoes, and these opportunities don't come knocking every day. Russia is cold, and it's hard to be away from your family, but it's well worth it.

Ticha Penicheiro

You have gold making a high, and gold at these levels is kind of a red flag. Maybe there's some money going out of equities.

Jim Fehrenbach

Republicans will continue to out-raise Democrats. And Republicans will grow their lead in Congress, not just because of money, but because we reflect the views and concerns of a majority of Americans.

Tom Reynolds

But it's not about the money. It's getting the opportunity to play in a very competitive league and hopefully getting back to a major league organization. And that's my priority.

Hal Lanier

When it comes to the location, my biggest concern is the safety of the kids. I deal with it as a fireman day in and day out. If I can save one child, one life, I'll feel like I've done something. We are keeping our focus not on the money, but on the kids.

Ricardo Gonzalez

The objective of his life is not just to make money, but to have influence and to follow the heritage of his grandfather.

Ferdinand Dudenhöffer

My feelings are he [Yevgeny Kafelnikov] should take his prize money when he is done here and go and buy some perspective.

Andre Agassi

E*Trade's strategy is to make money on the margin balances, and the larger the balance, the more desirable the account is.

Larry Tabb

People were giving money to companies who weren't worth anything. It was just absurd.

Michael Sandler

They recognize it costs money. They see it as badly spending taxpayer money.

Mark Muchow

Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life's blood. But everyone has something to give.

Barbara Bush