Even more money quotes
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archershipsFrom Paul Ross
"He that wants money, means, and content is without
three good friends." -Shakespeare, "As You Like It"
"Money alone sets all the world in motion."
-Publius Syrus ...in other words, "Money,
money, money makes the world go 'round." -
"Cabaret"
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." -Samuel Johnson
(most misquoted) "The love of money is the root of all evil." -Timothy 6:10
"Money you know will hide many faults"
-Miguel de Cervantes, "Don Quixote"
"Remember that time is money." - Benjamin Franklin (though I do not
know if this came -inappropriately enough- from "Poor Richard's Almanac")
"There's no such thing as a free lunch."
-Milton Friedman (We've all heard it. Now
you know who said it --and it just might be
"your final answer.")
"Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred
dollars a week. The rest doesn't count." -Neil Simon
"A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can
prove you don't need it." -Bob Hope (...or 'Writer,
Anon.')
"A bargain is anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on." -Kin Hubbard
"A billionhere, a billion there -- pretty soon it
adds up to real money." -Senator Everett Dirksen on
Congressional spending
"A design is what the designer has when time and money run out." -James Poole
"A nickel isn't worth a dime today."
-Yogi Berra
"After a certain point, money is meaningless. It
ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts."
-Aristotle Onassis
"All money is a matter of belief."
-Adam Smith
"As soon as any art is pursued with a view of money, then farewell, in ninety-nine cases out of a
hundred, all hope of genuine good work." -Samuel
Butler
"Beauty is potent but money is omnipotent."
- Proverb
"If you want to know what the Lord God thinks of
money, you have only to look at those to whom he
gives it." -Dorothy Parker She also said that
the two most beautiful words in the English
language are, "Check enclosed."
"Cocaine is God's way of saying you're making too
much money." -Robin Williams (probably during the
70's)
"From birth to 18 a girl needs good parents.
From 18 to 35, she needs good looks. From
35 to 55, good personality. From 55 on, she
needs good cash." -Sophie Tucker
"I cannot afford to waste my time making
money." -Louis Agassiz
"I have enough money to get by. I'm not
independently wealthy, just
independently lazy." -Montgomery Clift
"I make money using my brains and lose money
listening to my heart. But in the long run my books
balance pretty well." -Kate Seredy, Hungarian
children's writer, illustrator
"I'm not the man I used to be, so why should I have
to pay off his debts?" -Gary Apple (Anybody know who
he is?)
"If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy
marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you
are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the
mountains, you will have distant relatives."
-Chinese Proverb
"If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome,
and able to sing like a bird." -Jewish Proverb
"In spite of the cost of living, it's still
popular." -Kathleen Norris
"In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and
one size fits all." -William Randolph Hearst
"It is not economical to go to bed early to save
the candles if the result is twins." -Chinese
Proverb
"Let us all be happy, and live within our
means, even if we have to borrow the money to
do it with." -Artemus Ward
"Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better
class of enemy." -Spike Milligan
"Money is a stupid measure of achievement, but
unfortunately it is the only universal measure we
have." -Charles Proteus Steinmetz
"Poets are terribly sensitive people, and in my
observation one of the things they are most sensitive
about is money." -Robert Penn Warren
"Rockefeller made his money in oil, which he
discovered at the bottom of wells. Oil was considered
crude in those days, but so was Rockefeller. Now both
are considered quite refined." -Richard Armour
"Success is having to worry about every damn thing in
the world, except money." -Johnny Cash
"When I get a little money, I buy books;
and if any is left, I buy food and
clothes." - Erasmus
"MONEY, n. A blessing that is of no advantage to us
excepting when we part with it. An evidence of
culture and a passport to polite society." -Ambrose
"Bitter" Bierce in "The Devil's Dictionary"
"Money is coined liberty." -
Dostoevsky
"There was a time when a fool and his money were soon
parted, but now it happens to everyone." - Adlai
Stevenson
"I didn't get paid for this article and it took
longer to research than many that I've written from
scratch which is why, instead of 'getting rich
quick,' I'm 'staying poor slow.'" - Paul Ross
"He that wants money, means, and content is without
three good friends." -Shakespeare, "As You Like It"
"Money alone sets all the world in motion."
-Publius Syrus ...in other words, "Money,
money, money makes the world go 'round." -
"Cabaret"
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." -Samuel Johnson
(most misquoted) "The love of money is the root of all evil." -Timothy 6:10
"Money you know will hide many faults"
-Miguel de Cervantes, "Don Quixote"
"Remember that time is money." - Benjamin Franklin (though I do not
know if this came -inappropriately enough- from "Poor Richard's Almanac")
"There's no such thing as a free lunch."
-Milton Friedman (We've all heard it. Now
you know who said it --and it just might be
"your final answer.")
"Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred
dollars a week. The rest doesn't count." -Neil Simon
"A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can
prove you don't need it." -Bob Hope (...or 'Writer,
Anon.')
"A bargain is anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on." -Kin Hubbard
"A billionhere, a billion there -- pretty soon it
adds up to real money." -Senator Everett Dirksen on
Congressional spending
"A design is what the designer has when time and money run out." -James Poole
"A nickel isn't worth a dime today."
-Yogi Berra
"After a certain point, money is meaningless. It
ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts."
-Aristotle Onassis
"All money is a matter of belief."
-Adam Smith
"As soon as any art is pursued with a view of money, then farewell, in ninety-nine cases out of a
hundred, all hope of genuine good work." -Samuel
Butler
"Beauty is potent but money is omnipotent."
- Proverb
"If you want to know what the Lord God thinks of
money, you have only to look at those to whom he
gives it." -Dorothy Parker She also said that
the two most beautiful words in the English
language are, "Check enclosed."
"Cocaine is God's way of saying you're making too
much money." -Robin Williams (probably during the
70's)
"From birth to 18 a girl needs good parents.
From 18 to 35, she needs good looks. From
35 to 55, good personality. From 55 on, she
needs good cash." -Sophie Tucker
"I cannot afford to waste my time making
money." -Louis Agassiz
"I have enough money to get by. I'm not
independently wealthy, just
independently lazy." -Montgomery Clift
"I make money using my brains and lose money
listening to my heart. But in the long run my books
balance pretty well." -Kate Seredy, Hungarian
children's writer, illustrator
"I'm not the man I used to be, so why should I have
to pay off his debts?" -Gary Apple (Anybody know who
he is?)
"If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy
marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you
are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the
mountains, you will have distant relatives."
-Chinese Proverb
"If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome,
and able to sing like a bird." -Jewish Proverb
"In spite of the cost of living, it's still
popular." -Kathleen Norris
"In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and
one size fits all." -William Randolph Hearst
"It is not economical to go to bed early to save
the candles if the result is twins." -Chinese
Proverb
"Let us all be happy, and live within our
means, even if we have to borrow the money to
do it with." -Artemus Ward
"Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better
class of enemy." -Spike Milligan
"Money is a stupid measure of achievement, but
unfortunately it is the only universal measure we
have." -Charles Proteus Steinmetz
"Poets are terribly sensitive people, and in my
observation one of the things they are most sensitive
about is money." -Robert Penn Warren
"Rockefeller made his money in oil, which he
discovered at the bottom of wells. Oil was considered
crude in those days, but so was Rockefeller. Now both
are considered quite refined." -Richard Armour
"Success is having to worry about every damn thing in
the world, except money." -Johnny Cash
"When I get a little money, I buy books;
and if any is left, I buy food and
clothes." - Erasmus
"MONEY, n. A blessing that is of no advantage to us
excepting when we part with it. An evidence of
culture and a passport to polite society." -Ambrose
"Bitter" Bierce in "The Devil's Dictionary"
"Money is coined liberty." -
Dostoevsky
"There was a time when a fool and his money were soon
parted, but now it happens to everyone." - Adlai
Stevenson
"I didn't get paid for this article and it took
longer to research than many that I've written from
scratch which is why, instead of 'getting rich
quick,' I'm 'staying poor slow.'" - Paul Ross