Money quotations
Maclennan Hugh 1907-1990
The farmer's way of saving money: to be owed by someone he trusted.
McLuhan Marshall 1911-1980
Money is the poor people's credit card.
Macaulay Baron (Thomas Babington) 1800-1859
Essays ... ‘Southey's Colloquies'
We have heard it said that five per cent is the natural interest of money.
Maugham W. Somerset 1874-1965
Of Human Bondage
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
Michener Wendy
The British are just as keen to make money as the Americans, but they prefer hypocrisy to a blatantly commercial attitude.
Milligan Spike
Puckoon
Money couldn't buy friends but you got a better class of enemy.
O'hara Neal
We forget that money gives its value - that someone exchanged work for it.
Pavese Cesare
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
Pepys Samuel 1633-1703
Diary
But it is pretty to see what money will do.
Plautus c.250-184 BC
Always bring money along with your complaints.
Proverbs and Sayings
Irish
Money swore an oath that nobody who did not love it should ever have it.
Proverbs and Sayings
Jewish
You can't force anyone to love you or to lend you money.
Proverbs and Sayings
Jewish
With money in your pocket, you are wise, and you are handsome, and you sing well too.
Proverbs and Sayings
Russian
The rich would have to eat money, but luckily the poor provide food.
Proverbs and Sayings
Spanish
Don't offer me advice,give me money.
Punch 1841-1992
You pays your money and you takes your choice.
Racine Jean 1639-1699
Les Plaideurs
Honour, without money, is just a disease.
Reinhardt Gottfried
Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life.
Rogers Will 1879-1935
A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.
Rogers Will 1879-1935
Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.
Rothschild Baron 1840-1915
It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary that money should love you.
Runyon Damon 1884-1946
‘A Very Honourable Guy'
Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.
Rutherford Lord 1871-1937
We haven't got the money, so we've got to think!
Samuelson Paul A.
Economics
The consumer, so it is said, is the king ... each is a voter who uses his money as votes to get the things done that he wants done.
Sarah Duchess of York
I don't know where the money went - it just went. I don't even like shopping.
Schopenhauer Arthur 1788-1860
Money is human happiness in the abstract.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
The Taming of the Shrew
Nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal.
Shriner Herb
Our doctor would never really operate unless it was necessary.
He was just that way. If he didn't need the money, he wouldn't lay a hand on you.
Socrates 469-399 BC
In Plato - Apology
Virtue does not come from money, but from virtue comes money and all other good things to man, both to the individual and to the state.
Starr Roger
Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.
Stein Gertrude 1874-1946
Money is always there but the pockets change;it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
Stockdale Edmund
Money isn't everything - but it's a long way ahead of what comes next.
Summerskill Edith 1901-1980
The housewife is the Cinderella of the affluent state ... She is wholly dependent on the whim of an individual to give her money for the essentials of life.
Tennyson Alfred Lord 1809-1892
‘Northern Farmer. New Style'
‘Doänt thou marry for munny, but goä wheer munny is!'
Thackeray William Makepeace 1811-1863
The Newcomes
What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip?
Thatcher Margaret 1925
No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. He had money as well.
Twain Mark 1835-1910
Make money and the whole world will conspire to call you a gentleman.
Unruh Jesse
Money is the mother's milk of politics.
Vespasian AD 9-79
(replying to objection to tax public lavatories)
Money has no smell.
Voltaire 1694-1778
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Woods Harry
„Side by Side"
Oh we ain't got a barrel of money,
Maybe we're ragged and funny,
But we'll travel along
Singin' a song,
Side by side.
Woolf Virginia 1882-1941
Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.
Woolf Virginia 1882-1941
A Room of One's Own
A woman must have money and room of her own if she is to write fiction.
