What People Say About Money:

Quotations, Epigrams, and Synonyms*


I inherited my ability from both my parents; my mother's ability for spending money, and my father's ability for not making it.
  -Anonymous
Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand. 
  -Aphra Behn
Death pays all debts. I have all the money I'll ever need if I die by 4 today. -- Henny Youngman Envy never enriched any man. He is rich that has few wants.
Money is the key that opens all doors.
Jack--slang for money. It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
  -Henry Ford
Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.
  -Gerald Brenan
  Money burns a hole in the pocket.
Lucre- profit
A candidate is a person who gets money from the rich and votes from the poor to protect them from each other.
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-Aristotle
Money is like a sixth sense, without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
  -W. Somerset Maugham
Remember that time is money.
  -Benjamin Franklin
All I ask for is the opportunity to prove that money doesn't buy happiness. A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
    -Edgar Watson Howe
Mite--a small copper coin A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.
  -Carter Glass
Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.
-Ayn Rand

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
 -Adlai E.Stevenson
If you do anything just for the money, you don't succeed.
  -Barry Hearn
Money talks...but all mine ever says is good-bye.
-Anonymous
Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.
-J. Paul Getty
  Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it."
-Roger Starr
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
-Igor Stravinski
No horse goes as fast as the money you bet on him.
-Anonymous
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known -- that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.
-Norman O. Brown
Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
-Oscar Wilde
Money gone, friends gone. The abundance of money ruins youth.
It is easier to get money than to keep it.


*See Citations and References for sources of  quotations and snyonyms.

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