Money Quotes - Page 31

• The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion.

  Washington Irving

  Dollars, Devotion, Almighty

  'Wolfert's Roost' (1855) 'The Creole Village'

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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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• I never thought that the possession of money would make me feel rich: it often does seem to have an opposite effect. But then, I have never had the opportunity of knowing, by experience, how it does make one feel. It is something to have been spared the responsibility of taking charge of the Lord's silver and gold.

  Lucy Larcom

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Opposites

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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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• Unlike art and sex, money always arouses interest.

  Mason Cooley

  Art, Sex, Interest

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• The legal tender quality [of money] is only valuable for the purposes of dishonesty.

  Salmon P. Chase

  Quality, Purpose, Dishonesty

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

  Mason Cooley

  Perfect, Pleasure, Illegal

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• I am only interested in money because everyone else is.

  Mason Cooley

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• All who wish to hand down to their children that happy republican system bequeathed to them by their revolutionary fathers, must now take their stand against this consolidating, corrupting money power, and put it down, or their children will become hewers of wood and drawers of water to this aristocratic ragocracy.

  Andrew Jackson

  Children, Father, Power

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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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• A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other.

  George Jean Nathan

  Friends, Reading, Equality

  George Jean Nathan (1943). “Beware of Parents: A Bachelor's Book for Children”

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• What's missing is the eyeballs
  in each of us, but it doesn't matter
  because you've got the bucks, the bucks, the bucks.

  Anne Sexton

  Missing, Bucks, Matter

  Anne Sexton, “'Daddy' Warbucks”

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• People say, "Do you know how much a million dollars is?" I don't have a clue. How many Big Macs will it buy me?

  Billie Jean King

  People, Dollars, Clue

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• What's with the poverty Tourette's? Why do these two think we need a hobo for president?

  Jon Stewart

  Thinking, Reality, Class

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• There is probably not more than one hundred dollars in cash in circulation today. That is, if you were to call in all the bills and silver and gold in the country at noon tomorrow and pile them on the table, you would find that you had just about one hundred dollars, with perhaps several Canadian pennies and a few peppermint Life Savers.

  Robert Benchley

  Country, Gold, Tables

  Robert Benchley (1922). “Love Conquers All”

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• We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.

  William Howard Taft

  Investment, Dependent

  William Howard Taft, David Henry Burton (2009). “William Howard Taft: Essential Writings and Addresses”, p.115, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• Money was made for the free-hearted and generous.

  John Ray

  Made, Hearted, Generous

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• Like the man said, can happiness buy money?

  Stanley Kubrick

  Happiness, Men, He Man

  "Fictional character: Vinnie Rapallo". "Killer's Kiss", www.imdb.com. 1955.

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• Having money is just the best thing in the world.

  Madonna Ciccone

  World, Wealth, Best Things

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• You know what's wrong with our waterfront? It's the love of a lousy buck. It's making the love of a buck, the cushy job, more important than the love of man. It's forgetting that every fellow down here's your brother in Christ.

  Budd Schulberg

  Brother, Jobs, Men

  Budd Schulberg (2012). “On the Waterfront: The Final Shooting Script”, p.168, Open Road Media

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• What are the characteristics of today's world so that one may recognize it by them?" It pays pensions and borrows money: credit and monuments.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Today, Credit, World

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• Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Business, Delight, Charity

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• Medicine: "Your money and your life!

  Karl Kraus

  Medicine

  Thomas Stephen Szasz, Karl Kraus (1990). “Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry”, p.152, Syracuse University Press

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• My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family of three above the poverty line. Not today. Not even close. I understood right then that people can work hard, they can play by the rules, and they can still take a hard smack.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Family, Mother, Jobs

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• People have little idea, by and large, of the investment world. They are convinced they have an advantage.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Ideas, People, World

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