Money Quotes - Page 34

• 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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• ... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.

  Amelia Barr

  Trials, Hardship, Overcoming

  Amelia Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.255, Litres

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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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• Men will tell you sometimes that "money's hard." That shows it was not made to eat, I say.... Some of those who sank with the steamer the other day found out that money was heavy too.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Sometimes, Economics

  Henry David Thoreau, Bradford Torrey, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1906). “Familiar letters, ed. by F. J. Sanborn. Enl. ed”

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• You may raise enough money to tunnel a mountain, but you cannot raise money enough to hire a man who is minding his own business.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Tunnels, Independence

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.216, Graphic Arts Books

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• There were few who preferred honor to money.

  Sallust

  Honor

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• These individulas have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us.

  Seneca the Younger

  Motivational, Fever, Riches

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• If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous- looking house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes as a cheap, dear house.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fashion, Eye, House

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.403

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• The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Lying, Secret

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.377

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• Like having your own licence to print money.

  Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet

  Print

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• To grow in our ability to love ourselves we need to receive love as well.

  John Gray

  Relationship, Needs, Ability To Love

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• Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.

  John Dewey

  Stupid, Good Luck, Intelligent

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Murray G. Murphey (2008). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1922”, p.210, SIU Press

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• Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.

  John Wanamaker

  Business, Marketing, Half

  "Confessions of an Advertising Man". Book by David Ogilvy, Chapter 3, 1963.

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• Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.

  Moliere

  Sweet, War, Keys

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.80, Penguin

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• The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.

  Arthur Helps

  Funny, Luxury, Advice

  Sir Arthur Helps (1871). “Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms”, p.181

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• It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but it actually was.

  Paris Hilton

  Thinking, Way, Heiress

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• He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.

  Moliere

  Sarcastic, Men, Made

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• In our culture we make heroes of the men who sit on top of a heap of money, and we pay attention not only to what they say in their field of competence, but to their wisdom on every other question in the world.

  Max Lerner

  Hero, Men, Culture

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• Wealth is the means, and people are the ends. All our material riches will avail us little if we do not use them to expand the opportunities of our people.

  John F. Kennedy

  Mean, Opportunity, People

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• He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.

  Thomas Browne

  Wealth, Rich, Enough

  Sir Thomas Browne (1872). “Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers”, p.151

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• No profit grows where no pleasure is taken.

  William Shakespeare

  Taken, Wealth, Pleasure

  'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 1, sc. 1, l. 39

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• When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Devil, Twelve

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1897). “The original Plymouth pulpit”

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• The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.

  Peter Ustinov

  Pay, Bills, Reason

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• Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.

  Bill Vaughan

  Funny, Educational, Son

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