Adams Joey
Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.
Ade George 1866-1944
A people so primitive that they did not know how to get money except by working for it.
Allen Woody 1935-
Without Feathers
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Amsterdam Maury
Our Congressman are the finest body of men money can buy.
Anonymous
A genealogist is one who traces your family back as far as your money will go.
Anonymous
When you want really big money, you usually find yourself talking to people who didn't go to Eton.
Asnas Max
Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.
Austen Jane 1775-1817
Emma
Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Bacon Francis 1561-1626
Essays ‘Of Seditions and Troubles'
Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
Baldwin James 1924-1987
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.
Baring Maurice 1874-1945
If you would know what the Lord God thinks of money, you have only to look at those to whom he gives it.
Behn Aphra 1640-1689
The Rover
Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
Belloc Hilaire 1870-1953
Fatigue
I'm tired of Love: I'm still more tired of Rhyme.
But money gives me pleasure all the Time.
Bentley John
Making money is fun, but it's pointless if you don't use the power it brings.
The Bible
New Testament: I Timothy ch.6 v.10
The love of money is the root of all evil.
The Bible
Old Testament: Ecclesiastes: ch.10 v.19
Wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.
Bowen Ezra
If thee marries for money, thee surely will earn it.
Brenan Gerald 1894-1987
Thoughts in a Dry Season
Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.
Butler Samuel 1835-1902
Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
Ciardi John
Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.
Clift Montgomery 1920-1966
I have enough money to get by. I'm not independently wealthy, just independently lazy,
I suppose.
Dewey Thomas E. 1902-1971
No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life.
Donleavy J. P.
The Ginger Man
When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both it's health.
Dumas Alexandre („Fils") 1824-1895
Business? It's quite simple. It's other people's money.
Dylan Bob 1941-
‘It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)'
Money doesn't talk, it swears.
Euripides c.485-406 BC
Money is the wise man's religion.
Fitzgerald F. Scott 1896-1940
The Great Gatsby
Her voice is full of money.
Francis Brendan
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
Franklin Benjamin 1706-1790
Advice to a Young Tradesman
Remember that time is money.
Franklin Benjamin 1706-1790
There are three faithful friends: an old wife, and old dog, and ready money.
Fromm Erich 1900-1980
I think if you ask people what their concept of heaven is, they would say, if they are honest, that it is a big department store, with new things every week - all the money to buy them, and maybe a little more than the neighbours.
Frost Robert 1874-1963
‘The Hardship of Accounting'
Never ask of money spent
Where the spender thinks it went.
Nobody was ever meant
To remember or invent
What he did with every cent.
Getty Paul 1892-1976
I have complex about wealth. I have worked hard for my money, producing things people need. I believe that the able industrial leader who creates wealth and employment is more worthy of historical notice than politicians or soldiers.
Goldsmith Sir James 1933-1997
I cannot envisage going into business for any other purpose than to make money. There is no vocation about business.
The purpose is to make money.
Goldwyn Sam 1882-1974
Why should people pay good money to go out and see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
Graves Robert 1895-1985
There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money either.
Greeley Horace 1811-1872
The darkest hour of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
Hepburn Katharine
If you're given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.
Hobbes Thomas 1588-1679
Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools.
Hope Bob
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.
Horace 65-8 BC
Epistles
If possible honestly, if not, somehow, make money.
Hubbard Kin 1868-1930
I don't know of anything better than a woman if you want to spend money where it will show.
Jackson Robert H. 1892-1954
Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.
Jaffrey Saeed
in My Beautiful Launderette
"Take my advice, there's money in muck."
Jipcho Ben
Running for money doesn't make you run fast.
It makes you run first.
Johnson Samuel 1709-1784
Boswell - Life
No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
Jones Clinton 1848-1936
I never been in no situation where havin' money made it any worse.
Larkin Philip 1922-1985
‘Homage to a Government'
Next year we shall be living in a country
That brought its soldiers home for lack of money.
The statues will be standing in the same
Tree-muffled squares, and look nearly the same.
Our children will not know it's a different country.
All we can hope to leave them now is money.
Leacock Stephen 1869-1944
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Lennon John and McCartney Paul 1940-1980 and 1942-
„Can't Buy Me Love"
I don't care too much for money,
For money can't buy me love.
Louis Joe 1914-1981
I don't like money actually, but it quiets my nerves.
