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             QUOTES ABOUT MONEY
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Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it
 - Henry Ford 1931

Money is like muck - not good unless spread
 - Francis Bacon, Essays XV, 1625

Money is like manure. If you spread it around, it does a lot
of good. But if you pile it up in one place, it stinks like hell
 - Clint Murchison Jnr

Money is flat and meant to be piled up
 - Scottish proverb

Money is like a sixth sense, without which you cannot make a
complete use of the other five
 - Somerset Maugham

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons
 - Woody Allen

Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy
 - Spike Milligan

For the love of money is the root of all evil
  - Bible: I Timothy

Lack of money is the root of all evil
 - George Bernard Shaw

It has been said  that the love of money is the root of all
evil, the want of money is so quite as truly
 - Samuel Butler

A fool & his money are easily parted
 - Irish Proverb

A fool and his money are soon parted.  What I want to know is
how they got together in the first place
 - BBC's Cyril Fletcher

Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of
themselves
 - Proverb

Easy come, easy go
 - Proverb

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust
 - Oliver Wendell Holms

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to
trust nobody
 - Agatha Christie

Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money
 - Livy, History of Rome XXX, c.10

Without money, fame is dead
 - Irish Proverb

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for
you not to have any
 - Katherine Whitehorn

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it
 - Tennessee Williams

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think that
they can be happy without money
 - Albert Camus

You don't seem to realise that a poor person who is unhappy is
in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy.
Because the poor person has hope.  He thinks money would help.
 - Jean Kerr

Within certain limits it is actually true that the less money
you have, the less you worry
 - George Orwell

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally
important to those who have it and those who do not
 - John Kenneth Galbraith

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all
sound and sucessful personal and national morality should have
this fact for its basis
 - George Bernard Shaw

Money is a singular thing.  It ranks with love as man's greatest
source of joy.  And with death as his greatest source of anxiety
 - J. K. Galbraith

Money, it turned out, was exactly like  sex, you thought of
nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things
if you did
 - James Baldwin

But then one is always excited by descriptions of money changing
hands. It's much more fundamental than sex
 - Nigel Dennis

Nothing links man to man like the frequent passage from hand to
hand of cash
 - Walter Richard Sickert

Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever
does
 - Jane Austen

He that wants money, means, and content, is without three good
friends
 - William Shakespeare

For I don't care too much for money.  For money can't buy me
love
 - John Lennon

I'm tired of Love:  I'm still more tired of Rhyme. But money
gives me pleasure all the Time
 - Hilaire Belloc

No one would have remembered the Good Samaritan if he'd only
had good intentions.  He had money as well
 - Margaret Thatcher

Thirst after the drink and sorrow after the money
 - Irish proverb

A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money
answereth all things
 - Bible: Ecclesiastes

Clearly money has something to do with life -  In fact, they've
a lot in common, if you enquire: You can't put off being young
until you retire
 - Philip Larkin

Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences
of life
 - Gottfried Reinhardt

The trouble, Mr. Goldwyn is that you are only interested in
art and I am only interested in money
 - George Bernard Shaw

But it is pretty to see what money will do
 - Samuel Pepys

Money doesn't talk, it swears
 - Bob Dylan

I think money is on the way out
 - Anita Loos, 1956

How pleasant it is to have money
 - Arthur Hugh Clough

I can't afford to waste my time making money
 - Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

If possible, honestly, if not, somehow, make money
 - Horace

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently
employed than in getting money
 - Samuel Johnson

Put money in thy purse
 - William Shakespeare

Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can
 - John Wesley

Enrich yourself
 - Francois Guizot

My boy...always try to rub up against money, for if you rub
up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you
 - Damon Runyon

Some people's money is merited, and other people's is inherited
 - Ogden Nash

He married money and got a woman with it
 - Irish proverb

Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in
your mind, and there you are
 - Dorothy Parker

What makes all doctrines plain and clear?  About two hundred
pounds a year
 - Samuel Butler

What's a thousand dollars?  Mere chicken feed.  A poultry matter
 - Groucho Marx

Do they allow tipping on the boat?  Yes, sir. Then you won't
need the ten cents I was going to give you
 - Groucho Marx

Pieces of eight!
 - Robert Louis Stevenson

I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year
 - William Makepeace Thackeray

If you can actually count your money then you are not really
a rich man
 - Paul Getty II

After a certain point money is meaningless. It ceases to be
the goal. The game is what counts
 - Aristotle Onassis

All that good money going on a mere picture, when it might
have been spent on something really useful, like a drinking
fountain or a public lavatory
 - Aldous Huxley

Well, fancy giving money to the Government!  Might as well
have put it down the drain
 - A.  P. Herbert

Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself
 - Italian Proverb

My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him
to the tax man
 - Glenda Jackson

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

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but
because they are refused credit
 - Anatole France

No man's credit is as good as his money
 - Sinner Sermons, 1926

God often pays debts without money
 - Irish proverb

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some
 - Benjamin Franklin

Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have
to borrow the money to do it with
 - Artemus Ward

I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse:
borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease
is incurable
 - William Shakespeare

We all know how the size of sums of money seems to vary in a
remarkable way according as they are being paid in or paid out
 - Julian Huxley

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