“Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.”
Money does not buy happiness, but the lack of it can buy a lot of misery. These quotes explore wealth, poverty, generosity, greed, financial wisdom, and the uncomfortable truth that how you spend your money reveals what you actually value.
“Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.”
“Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.”
“Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense.”
“Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.”
“I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.”
“Let's be honest, I have enough money to never have to work again.”
“Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it a mistress, if thou knowest not.”
“The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.”
“Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.”
“Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.”
“We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.”
“Money is just the poor man's credit card.”
“I don't like begging money from producers.”
“The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.”
“Expensive clothes are a waste of money.”
“President Obama's view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy is to return entrepreneurship and genius and creativity to the American people!”