Money Quotes

• "A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it's real money."
  By: Senator Everett Dirksen
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• "Money, Paul, can do anything."
  By: Charles Dickens
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• "The sinews of affairs are cut."
  By: attributed to Demosthenes, by Aeschines
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• "Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made, To turn a penny in the way of trade."
  By: William Cowper, Table Talk (l. 421)
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• "Money was made, not to command our will, But all out lawful pleasure to fulfil. Shame and woe to use, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman run away."
  By: Abraham Cowley, Imitations--Tenth Epistle of Horace (bk. I, l. 75)
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• "To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst."
  By: Charles Caleb Colton
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• "As I sat at the Cafe I said to myself, They may talk as they please about what they call pelf, They may sneer as they like about eating and drinking, But help it I cannot, I cannot help thinking How pleasant it is to have money, heigh-ho! How pleasant it is to have money!"
  By: Arthur Hugh Clough, Spectator Ab Extra
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• "Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it."
  By: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short)
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• "I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow who used to say, "Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves.""
  By: 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Letters, quoting Lowndes
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• "The way to resumption is to resume."
  By: Salmon Portland Chase, Letter to Horace Greely
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• "Make ducks and drakes with shillings."
  By: George Chapman, Eastward Ho! (act I, sc. 1)
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• "Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away."
  By: Fidel Castro, Observer
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• "Money, which is of very uncertain value, and sometimes has no value at all and even less."
  By: Thomas Carlyle, Frederick the Great (bk. IV, ch. III)
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• "Whoever has sixpence is sovereign over all men,--to the extent of the sixpence; commands cooks to feed him, philosophers to teach him, kings to mount guard over him,--to the extent of sixpence."
  By: Thomas Carlyle
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• "To a shower of gold most things are penetrable."
  By: Thomas Carlyle
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• "Money, in truth, can do much, but it cannot do all. We must know the province of it, and confine it there, and even spurn it back when it wishes to get farther."
  By: Thomas Carlyle
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