Money

Money

• Give me neither poverty nor riches. — Solomon

• To be rich is not the end, but only a change of worries. — Epicurus

• Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. — Thoreau

• Money often costs too much. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

• A great fortune is a great slavery. — Seneca

• Riches take away more pleasures than they give. —Chinese Proverb

• When I wish I was rich, then I know I am ill. — D.H. Lawrence

• I cannot afford to waste my time making money.  — L. Agassiz

• Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant. — P. T. Barnum

• Riches serve a wise man but command a fool. —English Proverb

• Those who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money. — George Savile

• The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work on the proceeds, is the most familiar of all the devil’s traps for artists. — Logan P. Smith

• The gods are those who either have money or do not want it. — Samuel Butler

• Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but no appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace or happiness. — Ibsen

• To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it. — G. K. Chesterton

• Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money. — Schopenhaueer

• No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver. — Kahlil Gibran

• We may see the small value God has for riches by the people he gives them to. — Alexander Pope

• What Egyptian bondage do you suppose…was ever so cruel as a modern English forge, with its steel hammers? What Egyptian worship of garlic or crocodile ever so damnable as modern English worship of money? — John Ruskin

• The love of money is the root of all evil. — Bible 

• The lack of money is the root of all evil. — George Bernard Shaw 

• There is no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money either. — Robert Graves