M Quotes
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“Money's an instrument. The Bible says money answereth all things.”
“Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.”
“Money's never an issue. I can go and work for a small studio theatre somewhere if it's a play I really care about, or do TV or a big commercial West End show.”
“Money's only important when you don't have any.”
“Money's only something you need in case you don't die tomorrow.”
“Money's really - you know, song writing, yes, there's money to be made and things like that. But really, when you talk about the real money, you talk about touring. No question.”
“Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.”
Source: The Last Days
“Money's the solution, curing all the ails of the nation. But what about the hearts of man?”
“Money, after all, is an abstract artifact, like language - merely symbolized by the paper or coin or whatever. If you can fully grasp its abstractedness, especially in the computer age, it becomes quite clear that no group can monopolize this abstraction, except through a series of swindle. If the usurers had been bolder, they might have monopolized language as well as currency, and people would be saying we can't write more books because we don't have enough words, the way they now say we can't build starships, because we don't have enough money.”
“Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.”
Source: Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
“Money, amazingly, is losing its power... Our economy is rapidly changing from a money economy to a satisfaction economy.”
Source: Authentic Happiness
“Money, as a sort of drug, has become a great danger to our development. There will be no progress in our country unless we win the fight against corruption. This is a question of survival for the Communist Party of Vietnam and for socialism.”
“Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.”
“Money, big money (which is actually a relative concept) is always, under any circumstances, a seduction, a test of morals, a temptation to sin.”
“Money, financial matters were to help people, to help them survive, not to have a bigger house or a bigger car and that sort of thing, because I hear that from so many kids, they often don't know why their father won't spend more time with them.”
“Money, first and foremost, is a medium of communication, conveying the information we call 'price'. Government control of the money supply is censorship, a violation of the First Amendment. Inflation is a lie.”
“Money, horse racing and women: three things the boys just can't figure out.”
“Money, in truth, can do much, but it cannot do all. We must know the province of it, and confine it there, and even spurn it back when it wishes to get farther.”
Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle
“Money, influence, and position are nothing compared with brains, principles, energy and perseverances.”
“Money, it has been said, is the cause of good things to a good man, of evil things to a bad man.”
“Money, it is often said, does not bring happiness; it must be added, however, that it makes it possible to support unhappiness with exemplary fortitude.”
Source: Tempest-tost
“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.”
“Money, like any other force such as electricity, is amoral and can be used for either good or evil.”
Source: A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings
“Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.”
“Money, make money; by honest means if you can; if not, by any means make money.
[Lat., Rem facias rem, Recte si possis, si non, quocumque modo rem.]”
“Money, media, and political power are very closely connected.”
“Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart in you?”
Source: Keep the Aspidistra Flying
“Money, not morality, constitutes the principle of commercial nations.”
“Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.”
“Money, of course, is never just money. It's always something else, and it's always something more, and it always has the last word.”
Source: Collected Prose
“Money, of course, is still needed to survive, but time is what you need to live. So, save what little money you possess to meet basic survival requirements, but spend your time lavishly in order to create the life values that make the fire worth the candle. Dig?”
Source: Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
“Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.”
“Money, power, love, sex (until they get married), adulation, children, and control. Of these, children cause the most trouble. Women also want equal rights and equal pay for equal work, and I agree with them 100%. Though on some days it is hard to figure out how a species that controls 97% of the money and all the pussy can be downtrodden.”
“Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have got a little, it is often easy to get more.”
“Money, so they say, is the root of all evil today. But if you ask for a rise it's no surprise that they're giving none away.”
“Money, success, and the external trappings have chased after me wherever I have gone. These things show up in my life, and I just keep passing them on. I don't hang onto them myself at all. I have very few needs like that.”
“Money, thou bane of bliss, and source of woe,
Whence cam'st thou, that thou art so fresh and fine?
I know thy parentage is base and low:
Man found thee poor and dirty in a mine.”
“Money, when considered as the fruit of many years' industry, as the reward of labor, sweat and toil, as the widow's dowry and children's portion, and as the means of procuring the necessaries and alleviating the afflictions of life, and making old age a scene of rest, has something in it sacred that is not to be sported with, or trusted to the airy bubble of paper currency.”
Source: Brief sketch of the life of Thomas Paine. Common sense. Epistle to Quakers. The crisis. Public good. Letter to the Abbe Raynal. Dissertations on government, the affairs of the bank, and paper money. Miscellaneous
“Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.”
“Money-crimes have an abstract quality. History is laden with the victims of gold, but their remains are odourless.”
“Money-getters are the benefactors of our race. To them ... are we indebted for our institutions of learning, and of art, our academies, colleges and churches.”
Source: Art of Money Getting
“Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.”
“money-making is like a god possessing a priest. He never will leave you, until he has occupied you, wholly changed the order of your being, and seared you through and up and down. Then only would he eventually leave you, but nothing of you except an exhausted wreck, lying prone and wondering who are you.”
Source: The dilemma of a ghost ; Anowa: two plays
“Money-or rather the lack of it to carry out my ideas-may worry me, but it does not excite me.”
“Money. . . those who don't have enough of it are only aware of what it can buy them. When you finally have enough of it you become aware- acutely aware-of all the things it can't buy ... the really important things, like youth, health, love, peace of mind.”
“Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“Money. It's a good servant but a bad master.”
“Money. The ultimate motivation. The ultimate way of keeping score.”
“Money. You don't know where it's been, but you put it where your mouth is. And it talks!”
Source: 99 Poems: New & Selected
“Money.. Its nothing really worth squabbling about. I mean, this is what puts people six feet under!”