Money Quotes

• "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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• "How beauteous are rouleaus! how charming chests Containing ingots, bags of dollars, coins (Not of old victors, all whose heads and crests Weigh not the thin ore where their visage shines, But) of find unclipt gold, where dully rests Some likeness, which the glittering cirque confines, Of modern, reigning, sterling, stupid stamp;-- Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp."
  By: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto XII, st. 12)
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• "Wisdom, knowledge, power,--all combined."
  By: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
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• "Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair."
  By: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
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• "Still amorous, and fond, and billing, Like Philip and Mary, on a shilling."
  By: Samuel Butler (1), Hudibras (pt. III, canto I, l. 687)
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• "What's money without happiness?"
  By: Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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• "Character is money; and according as the man earns or spends the money, money in turn becomes character. As money is the most evident power in the world's uses, so the use that he makes of money is often all that the world knows about a man."
  By: Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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• "In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known--that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness."
  By: Norman O. Brown
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• "Money is a good servant, but a dangerous master."
  By: Dominique Bouhours
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• "To the eyes of a miser a guinea is far more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions that a vine filled with grapes."
  By: William Blake
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• "The sinews of business (or state)."
  By: Bion of Smyrna, in "Life of Bion" by Diogenes Laertius, bk. IV, ch. VII, sec. 3
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• "A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach: Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous; One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)"
  By: Bible, I Timothy (ch. III, v. 2-5)
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• "For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it."
  By: Bible, Ecclesiastes (ch. VII, v. 12)
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• "We must learn that competence is better than extravagance, that worth is better than wealth, that the golden calf we have worshiped has no more brains than that one of old which the Hebrews worshiped. So beware of money and of money's worth as the supreme passion of the mind. Beware of the craving for enormous acquisition."
  By: Cyrus Augustus Bartol
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• "To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when we expose the impotence of gold."
  By: Honore de Balzac
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• "Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness."
  By: Honore de Balzac
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