Quotations About / On: MONEY

  • 41.
    Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.
    (Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. Walden (1854), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 2, p. 362, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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  • 42.
    Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
    (Francis Bacon (1561-1626), British philosopher, statesman, essayist. Essays, "Of Seditions and Troubles," (1597-1625).)
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  • 43.
    The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
    (H.L. (Henry Lewis) Mencken (1880-1956), U.S. journalist, critic. The Vintage Mencken, ch. 47, p. 231, ed. Alistair Cooke, Vintage (1956).)
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  • 44.
    Money is that dear thing which,
    if you're not careful, you can squander
    your whole life thinking of....
    (Mary Jo Salter (b. 1954), U.S. poet. "A Benediction," part [6], lines 1-3 (1994).)
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  • 45.
    Money gives me more energy than all the Granola bars in the world.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Fifth Selection, New York (1988).)
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  • 46.
    Unlike art and sex, money always arouses interest.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Eighth Selection, New York (1991).)
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  • 47.
    Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
    (Anthony Trollope (1815-1882), British novelist. Lady Amelia de Courcy, Doctor Thorne, vol. 3, ch. xxxviii, London, Chapman and Hall (1858).)
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  • 48.
    Money is the source of the greatest vice, and that nation which is most rich, is most wicked.
    (Frances Burney (1752-1840), British author. The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, vol. 1, p. 48, journal entry, November 17, 1768, ed. Lars E. Troide, Oxford University Press (1988). Burney quotes the conversation of the Scotsman Alexander Seton, her elder sister's suitor.)
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  • 49.
    Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
    (P.J. (Patrick Jake) O'Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. "Why God Is a Republican and Santa Claus Is a Democrat," preface, Parliament of Whores (1991).)
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  • 50.
    The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.
    (Mario Puzo, U.S. author, screenwriter, and Francis Ford Coppola, U.S. director, screenwriter. Michael Corleone (Al Pacino), The Godfather III, voiceover letter in the opening scene inviting his children, Mary and Tony, to Michael's St. Sebastian award ceremony (1990).)
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