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Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. (Quote by - Ayn Rand)

Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)

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." (Quote by - Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield)

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away. (Quote by - Fidel Castro)

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! (Quote by - Arthur Hugh Clough)

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)

Still amorous, and fond, and billing, Like Philip and Mary, on a shilling. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)

Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it. (Quote by - Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield)

Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair. (Quote by - Dorothy Parker)

If you'd know the value of money, go and borrow some. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)

For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. (Quote by - Bible)

Penny wise, pound foolish. (Quote by - Robert Burton)

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million. (Quote by - Jean Jacques Rousseau)

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any. (Quote by - Edgar Watson Howe)

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money. (Quote by - Dr Samuel Johnson)

The sinews of business (or state)
. (Quote by - Bion of Smyrna)

Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)

Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made, To turn a penny in the way of trade. (Quote by - William Cowper)

No man's credit is as good as his money. (Quote by - Edgar Watson Howe)

Money is something you got to make in case you don't die. (Quote by - Max Asnas)

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them. (Quote by - Mme. Riccoboni)

The sinews of affairs are cut. (Quote by - William Cowper)

Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party. (Quote by - Seneca)

Money is always there but the pockets change. (Quote by - Gertrude Stein)

Never ask of money spent Where the spender thinks it went. Nobody was ever meant To remember or invent What he did with every cent. (Quote by - Robert Frost)

Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money. (Quote by - Gerald Brenan)

Make ducks and drakes with shillings. (Quote by - George Chapman)

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand. (Quote by - Aphra Behn)

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)

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. (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)

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?) (Quote by - Bible)

Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman away. (Quote by - Abraham Cowley)

Money is a good servant but a bad master. (Quote by - Aristodemus)

A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. (Quote by - Bible)

The only wealth is life. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)

The way to resumption is to resume. (Quote by - Salmon Portland Chase)

Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal—that there is no human relationship between master and slave. (Quote by - Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi or Tolstoy)

I'm tired of love, I'm still more tired of rhyme, but money gives me pleasure all the time. (Quote by - Hilaire Belloc)

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)

Money often costs too much. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there. (Quote by - Will Smith)

Money will come to you when you are doing the right thing. (Quote by - Michael Phillips)

Money talks — but credit has an echo. (Quote by - Bob Thaves)

Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it. (Quote by - Roger Starr)

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. (Quote by - Bob Hope)

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)

A great fortune is a great slavery. (Quote by - Seneca)

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. (Quote by - William Cowper)

A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it. (Quote by - James Moffatt)

Money dishonestly acquired is never worth its cost, while a good conscience never costs as much as it is worth. (Quote by - Jean Petit Senn)

The love of money is the root of all evil. (Quote by - Bible, 1 Timothy 6:10)

Money makes the man. (Quote by - Aristodemus)

Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five. (Quote by - Richard Ney)

Money is like muck, not good except it be spread. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)

Money begets money. (Quote by - John Ray)

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not. (Quote by - Horace)

There are people who have money and people who are rich. (Quote by - Coco Chanel)

I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better. (Quote by - Sophie Tucker)

Money is like a sixth sense, and you can't make use of the other five without it. (Quote by - W. Somerset Maugham)

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket. (Quote by - Kin Hubbard)

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it's real money. (Quote by - William Cowper)

There is a penalty for trying to knock down a cockpit door, but it's the people who try to go from coach to 1st class they really beat up. (Quote by - Jay Leno)

Money, which is of very uncertain value, and sometimes has no value at all and even less. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. (Quote by - Woody Allen)

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)