money - quotes

Dorothy (Rothschild) Parker, 1893-1967

was an US author, humorist, poet, and wit

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet), 1694-1778

was a French author, humanist, rationalist, and satirist

The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of the citizens to give to the other.

Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), 1835-1910

was an US humorist, novelist, short story author, and wit

Honesty is the best policy — when there is money in it.

Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet), 1694-1778

was a French author, humanist, rationalist, and satirist

When it is a question of money, everyone is of the same religion.

George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950

was an Irish dramatist and socialist

The seven deadly sins ... Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven milestones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the milestones are lifted.

Gertrude Stein, 1874-1946

was an US author in France

Money is always there, but the pockets change.

W(illiam) Somerset Maugham, 1874-1965

was an English dramatist and novelist

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

( “Of Human Bondage”, 1915 )

Dorothy (Rothschild) Parker, 1893-1967

was an US author, humorist, poet, and wit

Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.

Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826

was a 3rd president of US

Never spend your money before you have it.

Sophie Tucker, 1884-1966

was an US (Russian-born) vaudeville singer

From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents.
From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks.
From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality.
From fifty-five on, she needs good cash.

Ambrose (Gwinnett) Bierce, 1842-1914

was an US author and satirist

MONEY, n. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it. An evidence of culture and a passport to polite society. Supportable property.

( “The Devil's Dictionary”, 1906 )

William Cobbett, 1763-1835

was an English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.