Money Quotes - Page 30

• Money is a terrible blab; she will betray the secrets of her owner, whatever he do to gag her. His virtues will creep out in her whisper; his vices she will cry aloud at the top of her tongue.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Secret, Vices, Tongue

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• I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money." (On Vietnam War)

  Charles de Gaulle

  Military, War, Men

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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.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Character, Men, Use

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• Money is meant not for hoarding, but for using; the aim of life should be to use it in the right way - to spend as much as we can lawfully spend, both upon ourselves and others. And sometimes it is better to do this in our lifetime, when we can see that it is well spent, than to leave it to the chance spending of those that come after us.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Hoarding, Use, Aim Of Life

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• Money, it has been said, is the cause of good things to a good man, of evil things to a bad man.

  Philo

  Men, Power, Evil

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• In nature, all is managed for the best with perfect frugality and just reserve, profuse to none, but bountiful to all; never employing on one thing more than enough, but with exact economy retrenching the superfluous, and adding force to what is principal in everything.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Nature, Perfect, Enough

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• How many men I know who are earning dollars aplenty, but who are really earning little of what counts. They are so overwhelmingly engrossed in business that they get nothing from their dollars. The Juggernaut of dollar-making has crushed out of them every capacity for genuine enjoyment, every grace, every unselfish sentiment and instinct.

  B. C. Forbes

  Men, Grace, Dollars

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• Dress not thy thoughts in too fine a raiment. And be not a man of superfluous words or superfluous deeds.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Dresses, Deeds

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• our right or wrong use of money is the utmost test of character, as well as the root of happiness or misery, throughout our whole lives.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Character, Roots, Use

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• If money go before, all ways do lie open.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Way, Ifs

  1597-8 Ford (as Brooke).The MerryWives ofWindsor, act 2, sc.2, l.164-5.

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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.

  C. A. Bartol

  Passion, Brain, Mind

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• How much are you worth?
  I have no idea. How much do you want?
  Naw.I just want to know what you're worth. Over ten million?
  Oh, my, yes.
  Why are you doing it? How much better can you eat? What can you buy that you can't already afford?
  The future, Mr. Gittes! The future!

  Robert Towne

  Power, Ideas, Want

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• Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.

  Herman Melville

  Animal, Men, Charity

  Herman Melville (2012). “Moby Dick (Illustrated & Annotated Edition)”, p.446, Jazzybee Verlag

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• When there is firm conquest over covetousness, they who have conquered it wake up to the how and why of life.

  Patanjali

  Greed, Wake Up, Investing

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• I am a Christian according to my conscience in belief,in purpose and wish;Mnot of course by the orthodox standard. But I am content, and have a feeling of trust and safety.
  The Machiavellian mind and the merchant mind are at one in their simple faith in the power of segmental division to rule all--in the dichotomy of power and morals and of money and morals.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Christian, Simple, Power

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• When love and adventure are finished, it's nice to have getting and spending to fall back on.

  Mason Cooley

  Love, Nice, Fall

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• Money comes to life as it is spent.

  Mason Cooley

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• The perfect pleasure: money is neither fattening nor immoral nor illegal.

  Mason Cooley

  Perfect, Pleasure, Illegal

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• Don't eat
  those nice green dollars your wife
  gives you for breakfast.

  Denise Levertov

  Nice, Giving, Wife

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• We do not mean to count or weigh our contributions by any standard other than that of our abilities.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mean, Standards, Ability

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• I love money, but will money ever love me in return?

  Mason Cooley

  Return, Love Of Money, I Love Money

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• All the world over, the picturesque yields to the pocketesque.

  Herman Melville

  Art, Yield, World

  Herman Melville (1998). “Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The worship of Mammon may be vulgar or immoral, but it persists while other religions falter and disappear.

  Mason Cooley

  Religion, May, Worship

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• This is Wall Street, and today is important. Because tomorrow, July 4th, I intended to make my first million dollars--an excitingday in a man's life. The enterprise was slightly illegal.

  Abraham Polonsky

  Wall, 4th Of July, Men

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• Expenditure now attracts fame as conquest once did.

  Mason Cooley

  Fame, Conquest, Expenditures

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