Wisdom Quotations

Money

Everett Dirksen:
A billion here and a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money.

Frank Adams:
What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.

Franklin D. Roosevelt:
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Izaak Walton:
Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy.

James Russell Lowell:
Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.

Jane Austen:
Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Jean Anouilh:
God is on everyone's side … and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.

Katherine Whitehorn:
The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.

Marian Wright Edelman:
Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

Mark Twain:
The holy passion of friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring in nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

Mohandas K. Gandhi:
Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Money often costs too much.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?

Thomas Wolfe:
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

Thornton Wilder:
Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.

from "The Matchmaker"

Voltaire:
When it's a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Woody Allen:
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.