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. . . [QUOTES FOLLOW LINKS] see: AVARICE BANKERS, BANKS BEGGARS BORROWING CAPITALISM CHEAP CREDIT (FINANCE) DEBT ECONOMICS FRUGAL GAMBLING GREED INVESTMENTS LENDING LUXURY PHILANTHROPY POOR POSSESSIONS POVERTY PROSPERITY REWARD RICH (THE), RICH AND POOR SECURITY SOCIAL SECURITY SPENDTHRIFTS STOCK MARKET SUCCESS TAXATION THRIFT TIPPING VALUE WAGES WEALTH WILLS - The rich man has his motorcar, His country and his town estate. He smokes a fifty-cent cigar, And jeers at Fate. Yet though my lamp burn low and dim, Though I must slave for livelihood— Think you that I would change with him? You bet I would! --Franklin Pierce Adams (1881—1960) American columnist and member of the Algonquin Round Table. _The Rich Man_, Stanzas 1 and 3 - It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow. --Æsop (c.620 B.C.—c.560 B.C.) (Thought to be a legendary figure.) "The Dog in the Manger" in _Æsop's Fables_. Money can't buy everything. For example: poverty. --Nelson Algren (1909—1981) American novelist. _A Walk on the Wild Side_, ch. 3 [1956] A stockbroker is someone who invests other people's money until it's all gone. --attributed to Woody Allen [Allen Stewart Konigsberg] (b. 1935) American actor, screenwriter, and director. ^^ Peter Altenberg (1862—1919) Austrian poet. Despite reasonably sound finances, Altenberg possessed a curious mania for begging. The poet and critic Karl Kraus was often accosted by Altenberg for money, and Kraus invariably refused to comply. Finally, his patience at an end, Kraus exclaimed, "Look, Peter, I'd gladly give it to you, but I really don't have the money." "Very well," Altenberg mused. "I'll lend it to you." --http://anecdotage.com ^^ Money cannot buy the fuel of Love, but is excellent kindling. --W.H. [Wystan Hugh] Auden (1907—1973) English-born poet and man of letters. _Forewords and Afterwords_ [1973] If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him. --attributed to Lord Bacon by Alexander Anderson in _Laconics: or Instructive Miscellanies_[1827]. --attributed to Charron by John Timbs in _Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors_ [1829]. (Francis Bacon (1561—1626) English philosopher and essayist. Pierre Charron (1541—1603) French moralist.) 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. --James Baldwin (1924—1987) American author and playwright. "The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy" in_Esquire_ (mag.) [May 1961]. I'm tired of Love: I'm still more tired of Rhyme. But Money gives me pleasure all the time. --Hilaire Belloc (1870—1953) British poet, essayist, historian, and novelist. "Fatigue" [1923] HOLDUP MAN: Your money or your life? Come on, hurry up! BENNY: I'm thinking it over. --Jack Benny [Benjamin Kubelsky] (1894—1974) American entertainer. (His signature joke.) - The love of money is the root of all evil. --Bible "Timothy" 6:10 The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. --Bible "Proverbs" 22:7 A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. --Bible "Ecclesiastes" 10:19 - Legislator, n. A person who goes to the capital of his country to increase his own; one who makes laws and money. --Ambrose Bierce (1842—1914) American newspaperman, wit, and satirist. "Wasp" (San Francisco) [19 June 1886] - The Ten Cannots [1916] You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot establish security on borrowed money. You cannot build character and courage by taking away men's initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves. --Rev. William John Henry Boetcker (1873—1962) German-born American minister and author. - "O death, where is thy jolly old sting?" As Bertie Wooster said when his Aunt Agatha died leaving him a cool fifty thousand. --Gerald Brenan (1894—1987) British travel writer and novelist. "Death" in _Thoughts in a Dry Season: A Miscellany_ [1978]. 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 (1894—1987) British travel writer and novelist. _Thoughts in a Dry Season: A Miscellany_ [1978] - A fool and his money are soon parted. --John Bridges (1536—1618) English bishop. _A Defence of the Government_ [1587] If you can't take money from people and then screw them, you have no business being a politician. --Willie L. Brown, Jr. (b. 1934) American politician. On "Politically Incorrect" [American TV show] Penny wise, pound foolish. --Robert Burton (1577—1640) English scholar, cleric, and author. _The Anatomy of Melancholy_ [1621] "Democritus to The Reader" - A man can stand being told that he must submit to a severe surgical operation, or that he has some disease which will shortly kill him, or that he will be a cripple or blind for the rest of his life; dreadful as such tidings must be, we do not find that they unnerve the greater number of mankind; most men, indeed, go coolly enough even to be hanged, but the strongest quail before financial ruin, and the better men they are, the more complete, as a general rule, is their prostration. Suicide is a common consequence of money losses; it is rarely sought as a means of escape from bodily suffering. If we feel that we have a competence at our backs, so that we can die warm and quietly in our beds, with no need to worry about expense, we live our lives out to the dregs, no matter how excruciating our torments. Job probably felt the loss of his flocks and herds more than that of his wife and family, for he could enjoy his flocks and herds without his family, but not his family — not for long — if he had lost all his money. Loss of money indeed is not only the worst pain in itself, but it is the parent of all others. Let a man have been brought up to a moderate competence, and have no specialty; then let his money be suddenly taken from him, and how long is his health likely to survive the change in all his little ways which loss of money will entail? How long again is the esteem and sympathy of friends likely to survive ruin? People may be very sorry for us, but their attitude towards us hitherto has been based upon the supposition that we were situated thus or thus in money matters; when this breaks down there must be a restatement of the social problem so far as we are concerned; we have been obtaining esteem under false pretences. Granted, then, that the three most serious losses which a man can suffer are those affecting money, health, and reputation. Loss of money is far the worst, then comes ill-health, and then loss of reputation; loss of reputation is a bad third, for, if a man keeps health and money unimpaired, it will be generally found that his loss of reputation is due to breaches of parvenu conventions only, and not to violations of those older, better established canons whose authority is unquestionable. In this case a man may grow a new reputation as easily as a lobster grows a new claw, or, if he have health and money, may thrive in great peace of mind without any reputation at all. --Samuel Butler (1835—1902) English novelist, essayist, and critic. _The Way of All Flesh_ [1903] It costs a lot of money to die comfortably. --Samuel Butler (1835—1902) English novelist, essayist, and critic. _The Note-Books of Samuel Butler_, ed. Henry Festing Jones [1913 ed.] When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once. --Samuel Butler (1835—1902) English novelist, essayist, and critic. Quoted in Henry Festing Jones _Samuel Butler, Author of Erewhon (1835-1902). A Memoir_ [2 vol., 1919]. - He who is frugal is the richest of men, and the miser is the poorest. --Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort (1741—1794) French playwright and conversationalist. _Maxims and Thoughts_ [1796], tr. W.S. Merwin [1984] - What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more journey money, the less there remains of the journey? --Marcus Tullius Cicero (106—43 BC) Roman orator and statesman. "On Old Age," tr. Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh (1843—1906) in _The Harvard Classics_ [1909—1914] Edited by Charles William Eliot (1834—1926), vol. IX, pt. 2. There is no fortress so strong that money cannot take it. --attributed to Marcus Tullius Cicero (106—43 BC) Roman orator and statesman. - - Thus I sat at my table en grand seigneur, And when I had done threw a crust to the poor; Not only the pleasure, one’s self, of good eating. But also the pleasure of now and then treating, So pleasant it is to have money, heigh ho So pleasant it is to have money. They may talk as they please about what they call pelf, And how one ought never to think of one’s self, And how pleasures of thought surpass eating and drinking— My pleasure of thought is the pleasure of thinking How pleasant it is to have money, heigh ho! How pleasant it is to have money. --Arthur Hugh Clough (1819—1861) English poet. "Dipsychus", pt. II, sc. II [written 1850, pub. 1865] - I believe that it is only the abundance of money in a state which makes a difference to its greatness and its power. It is certain that by means of manufactures, a million people who languish in idleness will gain their livelihood. --Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619—1683) Controller general of finance and secretary of state for the navy under Louis XIV of France. _Memoir on Commerce, A Document Presented to the King_ [3 August 1664] - A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which was intended for her preservation. --C.C. Colton (1780—1832) English clergyman and writer. _Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words_, footnote to CLXVII [1820] There is this difference between those two temporal blessings, health and money. Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied; and this superiority of the latter is still more obvious when we reflect that the poorest man would not part with health for money, but that the richest would gladly part with all their money for heath. --C.C. Colton (1780—1832) English clergyman and writer. _Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words_, CCXXV [1820] - 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. --Robertson Davies (1913—1995) Canadian author and playwright. _Tempest-Tost_ [1951] Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil. As he grew up it was his duty as a Christian and a gentleman to appear to despise filthy lucre, whatever his secret opinion of it might be. --Rebecca Harding Davis (1831—1910) American author, journalist, and critic. _Bits of Gossip_, ch. 1 [1904] 'My other piece of advice, Copperfield,' said Mr. Micawber, 'you know. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, result misery. --Charles Dickens (1812—1870) English novelist. _David Copperfield_, ch. 12 [1850] The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake ... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one's own rules. --Joan Didion (b. 1934) American journalist and novelist. "7000 Romaine, Los Angeles" in _Slouching Towards Bethlehem_ [1968]. Well, baby, what I couldn't do With plenty of money and you. In spite of the worry that money brings. Just a little filthy lucre buys a lot of things. And I could take you to places that you would like to go. But outside of that, I've no use for dough. It's the root of all evil, Of strife and upheaval. But I'm certain, honey, that life would be sunny With plenty of money and you. --Al Dubin (1891—1945) Swiss-born American lyricist. "With Plenty Of Money And You" 1936 song w/music by Harry Warren. - If a man is wise he gets rich, an' if he gets rich, he gets foolish, or his wife does. That's what keeps the money movin' around. --Finley Peter Dunne (1867—1936) American journalist and humorist. _Observations by Mr. Dooley_ [1902] "He made money," said Mr. Dooley, "because he honestly loved it with an innocint affiction. He was thrue to it. Th' reason ye have no money is because ye don't love it f'r itsilf alone. Money won't iver surrinder to such a flirt." --Finley Peter Dunne (1867—1936) American journalist and humorist. _Mr. Dooley on Making a Will and Other Evil Necessities_ [1919] - Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves. --Albert Einstein (1879—1955) German-American physicist. Quoted in George Sylvester Viereck _Glimpses Of The Great_ [1930]. Debasing the Moral Currency. --George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] (1819—1880) English novelist. Title of essay in _Impressions of Theophrastus Such_ [1879]. - Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882) American philosopher and poet. _English Traits_ [1856] "Religion" Can anybody remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce? --Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882) American philosopher and poet. "Works and Days" in _Society and Solitude_ [1870]. - By gaming we lose both our time and treasure — two things most precious to the life of man. --Owen Feltham (c. 1610—c. 1678) English religious writer. Quoted in James Cumming _Resolves, Divine, Moral, and Political of Owen Fellham_ [1820]. Let the buyer beware. --John Fitzherbert _A Book of Husbandry_ [1523] My main problem is reconciling my gross habits with my net income. --Errol Flynn (1909—1959) Tasmanian-born motion-picture actor. Quoted in "N.Y. Times" [6 March 1955]. - Creditors have better memories than debtors. --Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _Poor Richard's Almanack_ [1736] Lend Money to an Enemy, and thou'lt gain him, to a Friend, and thou'lt lose him. --Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _Poor Richard's Almanack_ [1740] The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. --Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _Advice to a Young Tradesman_ [1748] If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some. --Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _Poor Richard's Almanack_ [1758] [The] great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their *giving too much for their whistles.* --Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. (Referring to the time when at age 7 he was charmed by another boy's whistle which he bought with all the money he had; letter to Madame Brillion [10 November 1779] - Q.) Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessaries. --Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _Autobiography_ [1798] "The Way to Wealth" - A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. --Robert Frost (1874—1963) American poet. Quoted in "Reader's Digest" [1949]. Purchase no friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give such will cease to love. --Thomas Fuller (1654—1734) English writer and physician. Attributed in _Day's Collacon: An Encyclopaedia Of Prose Quotations_, p. 305 [1884]. To have money is to be virtuous, honest, beautiful and witty. And to be without is to be ugly and boring and stupid and useless. --Jean Giraudoux (1882—1944) French dramatist. _The Madwoman of Chailot_ [1945] The golden rule: whoever has the gold makes the rules. --Todd Gitlin and Nanci Hollander, _Uptown: Poor Whites in Chicago_ [1970] - Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today will curse tomorrow; only one thing endures — character. --Horace Greeley (1811—1872) American newspaper editor. Attributed in John Barnett Donaldson _The Two Talents, with Other Papers, Sermons, Leaders_ [1900] "Through Thorns to a Throne". The darkest day in any man's earthly career is that wherein he first fancies there is some easier way of gaining a dollar than by squarely earning it. --Horace Greeley (1811—1872) American newspaper editor. "Friends' Intelligencer" (monthly periodical) [31 August 1867] - Those who give not till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer. --Joseph Hall (1574—1656) English bishop, moral philosopher, and satirist. Attributed in _The Columbian Star and Christian Index, vol. 1-2 [1829]. - I remember one night I was walking past Mom and Dad's room when I heard them talking about how they might not have enough money to pay their bills that month. I knew what I had to do. I went and got my piggy bank and buried it in the backyard, where they couldn't get their mitts on it. --Jack Handey (b. 1949) American comedian and comedy writer. _Fuzzy Memories_ [1996] - - [A bank executive talks to his subordinates in a staff meeting:] Levy transition fees. And maintenance fees. And fees for opening an account, closing an account, having less than three accounts, and having more than two accounts. I want to see late charges, early charges, and surcharges on other charges. I want a fee for foreign accounts, a fee for domestic accounts, and a fee for accounts subject to audits. You get the picture? Institute a contact fee, a telephone charge, a bookkeeping adjustment charge, a sinking fee, a flotation fee, and you, Nichols, go to the New York Public Library and— I don't care how long it takes— find five fees that no one has ever heard of. Look especially hard into Babylonia, the Sumerians, Byzantium, and the Holy Roman Empire. Those guys knew what they were doing, and they had balls. --Mark Helprin (b. 1947) American novelist and journalist. _Memoir From Antproof Case_ [1995] - To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe. --George Herbert (1593—1633) English religious poet. _Jacula Prudentum_ (Outlandish Proverbs) [1640] - The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were contemptuous of money. The passage from the nineteenth to the twentieth century has been a passage from considerations of money to considerations of power. How naïve the cliché that money is the root of evil! --Eric Hoffer (1902—1983) American longshoreman, philosopher, and author who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1982. _Working and Thinking on the Waterfront_ [1969] Money, you've gots of friends, Crowding round your door. Money's gone and spending ends They don't come no more. --Billie Holliday [Eleanora Fagan] (1915—1959) American jazz singer. "God Bless The Child", 1941 song w/ music by Arthur Herzog. I care not much for gold or land; Give me a mortgage here and there, Some good bank-stock, some note of hand, Or trifling railroad share, I only ask that Fortune send A *little* more than I shall spend. --Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809—1894) American physician, poet, and essayist. "Contentment" in _The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table_ [1858]. - The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money I applaud myself. --Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65—8 BC) Roman poet. _Epistles_, i, c. 25 B.C. Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of its owner. --Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65—8 BC) Roman poet. Attributed in Alfred Henderson _Latin Proverbs and Quotations_, p. 163 [1869]. [Expressing disapproval of a popular view:] Make money, fairly make it, if you may, But, if not fairly, then in any way. --Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65—8 BC) Roman poet. _Epistles_ 1.1, quoted in Casper J. Kraemer Jr. (ed.) _The Complete Works of Horace_ [1936]. - - When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, 'Give pounds and crowns and guineas, But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty, No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, 'The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty, And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true. --A.E. [Alfred Edward] Houseman (1859—1936) English classical scholar and poet. "One-and-Twenty" in _The Academy Supplement_ [20 August 1898]. - - Financial sense is knowing that certain men will promise to do certain things, and fail. --Edgar Watson Howe (1854—1937) American journalist and author. Quoted in "The American Magazine" [1915]. When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't any. --Edgar Watson Howe (1854—1937) American journalist and author. _Sinner Sermons_ [1926 ed.] - - When a fellow says, 'It hain't the money, but the principle o' the thing,' it's th' money. --Frank McKinney (Kin) Hubbard (1868—1930) American humorist. _Abe Martin: Hoss Sense and Nonsense_ [1926] The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket. --Frank McKinney (Kin) Hubbard (1868—1930) American humorist. Attributed in "Fortune" (mag.) [1975]. - Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace or happiness. --Henrik Ibsen (1828—1906) Norwegian playwright. Attributed in _Kiplinger's Personal Finance_ [May 1956]. The trick is to stop thinking of it as *your* money. --IRS auditor - ... nice crisp clean checks, pert pieces of copper coinage thrust deep into trouser pockets, romantic foreign money rolling against the thigh with rough familiarity, beautiful wayward curlicued banknotes, filigreed copper plating cheek by jowl with tumbly rubbing gently against the terse leather of beautifully balanced bank books!! I'm sorry. But I love money. All money. I've always wanted money. To handle! To touch! The smell of the rain-washed florin! The lure of the lira! The glitter and the glory of the guinea! The romance of the ruble! The feel of the franc! The heel of the deutschmark! The cold antiseptic sting of the Swiss franc! And the sunburnt splendor of the Australian dollar! --Eric Idle (b. 1943) English comedian, actor, and member of Monty Python. "Monty Python's Flying Circus" (BBC TV comedy series) - The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land. --Washington Irving (1783—1859) American writer. "The Creole Village" in _The Knickerbocker_ [November 1836] & in "New-York Mirror" [4 November 1836]. The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. --Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826) American statesman and president [1801—1809]. Letter to Samuel Kerchival [12 July 1816]. Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses. --Jerome K Jerome (1859—1927) English novelist and playwright. _Three Men in Boat_, ch. 3 [1889] No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money. --Samuel Johnson (1709—1784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. In James Boswell _The Life of Samuel Johnson_ [1791] "5 April 1776". - Widely acclaimed throughout the agency, [CIA Deputy Director John E.] McLaughlin was an accomplished magician. On a bookshelf in his office next to Tenet's, he kept a photo of Harry Houdini. [...] When the leader of a Latin American country visited the CIA, McLaughlin asked him if he could borrow a dollar bill. In front of the man's eyes, McLaughlin folded the bill into small segments, then unfolded it and produced a five-dollar bill. He then reached into his pocket and gave the astonished chief of state a dollar bill back. "I'd like to hire you as our finance minister," the man said. --Ronald Kessler (b. 1947) American journalist and author. _The CIA at War_, ch. 7 [2003] - [Of Peter and John Delmonico:] They opened a café, the first place in New York to offer French pastry, in a two-story brick house at 23 William Street in the heart of the business district, and called it Delmonico. [...] for the Americans, the initial curiosity was the first female cashier they had ever seen, a new concept, entrusting women with money. --Mark Kurlansky (b. 1948) American author. _The Big Oyster_, ch. 5 "Becoming the World's Oyster" [2006] Plenty of people despise money, but few know how to give it away. --François de La Rochefoucauld (1613—1680) French classical author. _Maxims_, # 301 [1665], tr. Leonard Tancock [1959] Children are rarely in the position to lend one a truly interesting sum of money. There are, however, exceptions, and such children are an excellent addition to any party. --Fran Lebowitz (b. 1946) American humorist. _Metropolitan Life_ [1978] ^ Oscar Levant (1906—1972) American pianist, writer, and wit. As a houseguest in the Kaufman household, Levant rather overstayed his welcome. At the end of one of his prolonged visits, Mrs. Kaufman hinted, 'The servants always expect a little something, and I know you haven't any money, so I tipped them each three dollars and told them it was from you.' Levant was outraged. 'You should have given them five!' he exclaimed. 'Now they'll think I'm stingy.' --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and André Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ ^ Detlev von Liliencron (1844—1909) German lyric poet and novelist. Liliencron was often in dire financial straits. One of his creditors stopped him in the street and demanded payment. 'Sorry, but I have no money, said Liliencron. 'Please be patient.' 'But that's what you said four weeks ago.' 'Well,' said Liliencron triumphantly, haven't I kept my word?' --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and André Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ I don't like money actually, but it quiets my nerves. --Joe Louis [Joseph Louis Barrow aka The Brown Bomber] (1914—1981) Undefeated American boxer and heavyweight champion [1937—1949]. Attributed in Connie Robertson _Book of Humorous Quotations_, p. 122 [1998]. Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves. --William Lowndes (1652—1724) English politician. In Lord Chesterfield _Letters to his Son_ [1774] "5 February 1750" A son could bear with great complacency the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair. --Niccolò Machiavelli (1469—1527) Florentine statesman and political philosopher. Attributed in Kate Louise Roberts _Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations_, p. 463 [1922]. There's no getting blood out of a turnip. --Frederick Marryat (1792—1848) English novelist. _Japhet_ [1836] Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy. --Groucho Marx (1895—1977) American film comedian. Attributed in Adrian Furnham & Michael Argyle _The Psychology of Money_, p. 177 [1998]. There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them. --Mignon McLaughlin (1913—1983) American journalist and author. _The Second Neurotics Notebook_ [1966] Economic independence is the foundation of the only sort of freedom worth a damn. --H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880—1956) American journalist and literary critic. Quoted in Guy J. Forgue (ed.) _Letters of H. L. Mencken_ [1961]. [When informed his next-door neighbor, Holly Lahti, had won a $190 million dollar lottery:] I want to go over there and be her friend now. --Eric Miller Quoted in _Las Vegas Review Journal_ [13 January 2011]. Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy. --Spike [Terence Alan] Milligan (1918—2002) Irish novelist, poet, musician, and comedian. _Puckoon_, ch. 6 [1963] Fred R. Shapiro (ed.) in _The Yale Book of Quotations_, p. 519 [2006] notes that "The earliest citation found is 'Money can't get you friends, but it can get you a better class of enemies.' (_Charleroi [Pa.] Mail_, 19 Aug. 1953)." I want the whole of Europe to have one currency; it will make trading much easier. --Napoleon I (1769—1821) Emperor of France [1804—1815]. Letter to his brother Louis [6 May 1807]. - Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny— Did you ever try buying them without money? --Ogden Nash (1902—1971) American writer of humorous poetry. "The Terrible People" in _Happy Days_ [1933]. He without benefit of scruples His fun and money soon quadruples. --Ogden Nash (1902—1971) American writer of humorous poetry. In _The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash_ [1945]. - Money is life's report card. --cartoon caption in _New Yorker_ [1979]. - [On the most beautiful words in the English language:] The ones I like ... are 'cheque' and 'inclosed.' --Dorothy Parker (1893—1967) American critic and humorist. Quoted in "N.Y. Herald Tribune" [12 December 1932]. I'd like to have money. And I'd like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that's too adorable, I'd rather have money. --Dorothy Parker (1893—1967) American critic and humorist. In "Paris Review" [Summer 1956]. - Expenditure rises to meet income. --C. Northcote Parkinson (1909—1993) English writer. _The Law and the Profits_, ch. I [1960] You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap. --attributed to Dolly Parton (b. 1946) American country music singer. No woman marries for money: they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. --Cesare Pavese (1908—1950) Italian novelist, poet, and translator. Attributed in Connie Robertson _The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations_, p. 321 [3rd ed., 1998]. Empty pockets never held anyone back. It's only empty heads and empty hearts that do it. --Norman Vincent Peale (1898—1993) American preacher and author. _Enthusiasm Makes the Difference_ [1985] I want to live like a poor man with lots of money. --attributed to Pablo Picasso (1881—1973) Spanish painter and sculptor. If you lend a person any money, it becomes lost for any purpose as one's own. When you ask for it back again, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press still further, either you must part with that which you have intrusted, or else you must lose that friend. --Titus Maccius Plautus (254—184 BC) Roman comic dramatist. _Trinummus_, IV, iv When I had money, everybody called me brother. --Polish proverb - Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter. So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another – their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun. --Ayn Rand (1905—1982) Russian-born American writer. _Atlas Shrugged_ [1957] [When Ayn Rand's niece asked her to borrow $25 for a dress, Rand spelled out the terms:] I want you to understand right now that I will not accept any excuses — except a serious illness. If you become ill, then I will give you an extension of time — *but for no other reason*. If, when the debt becomes due, you tell me you can't pay me because you needed a new pair of shoes or a new coat or you gave the money to somebody in the family who needed it more than I do — then I will consider you as an embezzler. No, I won't send a policeman after you, but I will write you off as a rotten person and I will never speak or write to you again. --Ayn Rand (1905—1982) Russian-born American writer. Quoted in Thomas Mallon _Yours Ever: People and Their Letters_ [2009]. - It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price. --Samuel Richardson (1689—1761) English novelist. _A Collection of the Moral and Instructive Sentiments..._ [1755] I believe the power to make money is a gift of God ... to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind. Having been endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make money and still more money, and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience. --John D(avison) Rockefeller Sr. (1839—1937) American capitalist and philanthropist. Quoted in Matthew Josephson, _The Robber Barons_ [1934]. Happiness, — a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion. --Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712—1778) French philosopher and novelist. Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou _Edge-Tools of Speech_, p. 203 [1886]. 'My boy,' he says, 'always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.' --Damon Runyon (1884—1946) American journalist and short-story writer. "A Very Honorable Guy" in _Cosmopolitan_ [August 1929]. No, little rich boy, there is no third principle; there is only money—and—poverty, and have and lack, and right—and —left; there is only me — against the world! The world is not ideas, rich boy; the world is no place for dreamers or their dreams; the world, little Snotnose, is things. Things and their makers rule the world. For things, the country is run. Not for people. When you have things, there is time to dream; when you don’t, you fight. --Sir Salman Rushdie (b. 1947) Indian-born British novelist. _Midnight’s Children_ [1981] I know, but I had a better year than Hoover. --Babe Ruth (1895—1948) American major-league baseball player. In 1930, responding to the complaint that his salary of $80,000 was more than the President's $75,000. I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. --Saki [Hector Hugh Munro] (1870—1916) Scottish writer. _The Unbearable Bassington_, ch. 5 [1912] Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. --Scottish Proverb - He that visits the sick, in hopes of a legacy, let him be never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him in this to be no better than a raven, that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes. --Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C.— 65 A.D.) Roman philosopher and poet. Quoted in Sir Roger L'Estrange _Seneca's Morals by way of Abstract_ [1764]. What madness is it for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him. --Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC—65 A.D.) Roman philosopher and poet. Quoted in Maturin M. Ballou _Treasury of Thought_, p. 232 [15th ed. 1894]. - - Foul cank’ring rust the hidden treasure frets, But gold that’s put to use more gold begets. --William Shakespeare (1564—1616) English dramatist. _Venus and Adonis_, l. 767 [1592-93] An itching palm. --William Shakespeare (1564—1616) English dramatist. _Julius Caesar_, IV, iii [1599] Neither a borrower nor a lender be, For loan both loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. --William Shakespeare (1564—1616) English dramatist. _Hamlet_, I, iii [1601] - The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilisation. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honour, generosity and beauty. ... Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people. --George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950) Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist propagandist, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925. _Major Barbara_ [1905] I am for gold dollars as against baloney dollars. --Alfred E. Smith (1873—1944) American politician; four-time Democratic governor of New York and the first Roman Catholic to run for President of the U.S.. In an interview in New York City [24 November 1933]. Nature has no cure for this sort of madness [Bolshevism], though I have known a legacy from a rich relative work wonders. --F. E. Smith (1872—1930) British Conservative politician and lawyer. _Law, Life, and Letters_, vol. 2, ch. 19 [1927] There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail. --Logan Pearsall Smith (1865—1946) American-born man of letters. _Afterthoughts_ [1931] "Life and Human Nature" It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night. --Willie Sutton (1901—1980) American criminal. In Quentin Reynolds _I, Willie Sutton_, ch. 5 "On My Own and Into Sing Sing" [1953]. He who loves money will not be satisfied with money. --Talmud What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! [...] How tenderly we look at her faults if she is a relative; what a kind, good-natured old creature we find her! --William Makepeace Thackeray (1811—1863) English novelist. _Vanity Fair_ [1847-48] That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. --Henry David Thoreau (1817—1862) American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher. _Journal_ [11 March 1856] Indeed, I know of no country where the love of money occupies as great a place in the hearts of men, or where people are more deeply contemptuous of the theory of permanent equality of wealth. --Alexis de Tocqueville (1805—1859) French historian and politician. _Democracy in America_, vol. I, pt. I, ch. 3 [1835] (Arthur Goldhammer translation) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. --Lana Turner [Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner] (1920—1995) American actress. Attributed in Robert Andrews _The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations_, p. 288 [1989]. - The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. _Pudd'nhead Wilson_ [1894] ch. 7 epigraph: "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" Get money. Get it quickly. Get it in abundance. Get it in prodigious abundance. Get it dishonestly if you can, honestly if you must. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. In Bernard DeVoto (ed.) _Mark Twain in Eruption_ [1940]. His money is twice tainted: 'taint yours and 'taint mine. --attributed to Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. - I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left. --Voltaire (François Marie Arouet) (1694—1778) French writer and philosopher. _Letter to Madame du Deffand_ [23 April 1754], as quoted in Robert Andrews _The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations_ [1993]. A gold rush is what happens when a line of chorus girls spots a man with a bankroll. --Mae West (1893—1980) American stage and film actress. Dialogue "Klondike Annie" [1936 film]. Screenplay by West & Frank Mitchell Dazey. - It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. --Oscar Wilde (1854—1900) Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet. "The Model Millionaire" [1888] There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else. --Oscar Wilde (1854—1900) Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet. _The Soul of Man Under Socialism_ [1891 essay] - Always remember, money isn't everything — but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense. --attributed to Earl Wilson (1907—1987) American newspaper columnist. I'm sick of praise. I want money. --Thomas Wolfe (1900—1938) American novelist. In John Skally Terry (ed.) _Thomas Wolfe's Letters to His Mother_ [1943]. With money in your pocket, you are wise and you are handsome and you sing well too. --in _Yiddish Proverbs_, ed. Hanan J. Ayalti [1949]. ... a fair day's wages for a fair day's work. --anon. Quoted by Alpheus Cary in a speech at Faneuil Hall, Boston, Mass. [7 Oct. 1824]. When a man with experience meets a man with money, the man with money gets the experience, and the man with experience gets the money. --anon. -- When Barbara and Jim were dating, Barbara became concerned over the lavish amount of money Jim was spending on her. After an expensive dinner date, she asked her mother, “What can I do to stop Jim from spending so much money on me?” Her mother replied simply, “Marry him.” ----- bursar/purser (noun) ['bêr-sr/pêr-sr] The treasurer of a college or university is often called a "bursar" while the person with the same job on a vessel (air or sea) is a purser. Everywhere else the function is that of a treasurer. cupidity (noun) [kyu-'pi-dê-tee or -ti] Excessive avarice or strong greed for something, especially for wealth. The adjective is cupidinous. dollar (noun) ['dah-lê(r) ] The basic monetary unit of Australia, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Brunei, Canada, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Fiji, Grenada, Guyana, Hong Kong, Jamaica, Kiribai, Liberia, Nauru, New Zealand, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Singapore, the Solomon Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, the United States, and Zimbabwe. [2004] emolument [ih-MOL-yuh-muhnt], noun: The wages or perquisites arising from office, employment, or labor; gain; compensation. Synonyms: profit, remuneration, salary, stipend. exiguous [ig-ZIG-yoo-us], adjective: Extremely scanty; meager. lucre [LOO-kuhr], noun: Monetary gain; profit; riches; money; -- often in a bad sense. numismatics [noo-miz-MAT-iks; -mis-; nyoo-], noun: The collection and study of money (and coins in particular). parsimonious (adj.) Frugal: very frugal or ungenerous. pecuniary [pih-KYOO-nee-air-ee], adjective: 1. Relating to money; monetary. 2. Consisting of money. 3. Requiring payment of money. pelf [PELF], noun: Money; riches; gain; -- generally conveying the idea of something ill-gotten. spendthrift (noun) ['spend-thrift] A person who spends money wastefully. tontine (noun) Group investment scheme: an investment or insurance plan in which contributors pay equal amounts into a common fund and receive equal dividends and benefits from it, with the final surviving contributor receiving everything. wastrel [WAY-struhl], noun: 1. A person who wastes, especially one who squanders money; a spendthrift. 2. An idler; a loafer; a good-for-nothing. end page | MACARTHUR (DOUGLAS) - MALICE | MAN - MARINES | MARRIAGE | MARTYRS - MAUGHAM (WILLIAM SOMERSET) | McCARTHY - MEANNESS | MEDIA (THE) | MEDICINE - MEMORIAL DAY | MEMORIES - MEMORY | MEN - MEN v. 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