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George Bernard Shaw2 quotes
I am a Millionaire. That is my religion. — George Bernard Shaw · 1905Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis. — George Bernard Shaw · 1887Mark Twain2 quotes
Unexpected money is a delight. The same sum is a bitterness when you expected more. — Mark Twain · 1878Virtue never has been as respectable as money. — Mark Twain · 1869Alexis de Tocqueville1 quote
I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken a stronger hold on the affections of men, and where a profounder contempt is expressed for the theory of the permanent equality of property. — Alexis de Tocqueville · 1835Andrea Dworkin1 quote
The power of money is a distinctly male power. Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice. In the hands of women, money stays literal; count it out, it buys what it is worth or less. In the hands of men, money buys women, sex, status, dignity, esteem, recognition, loyalty, all manner of possibility. — Andrea Dworkin · 1981Arthur Hugh Clough1 quote
No graven images may be
Worshipped, except the currency. — Arthur Hugh Clough · 1862Big Worm1 quote
Playing with my money is like playing with my emotions. — Big Worm · 1995Bud Fox1 quote
How much is enough? — Bud Fox · 1987C. Northcote Parkinson1 quote
Expenditure rises to meet income. — C. Northcote Parkinson · 1960Carrie1 quote
I like my money right where I can see it-hanging in my closet. — Carrie · 2003David Hume1 quote
Money... Is none of the wheels of trade: It is the oil which renders the motion of the wheels more smooth and easy. — David Hume · 1752Dom Pagnotti1 quote
When making a business decision, the only color that matters, Jesus, is green. — Dom Pagnotti · 1998Francis Bacon1 quote
Riches are for spending. — Francis Bacon · 1625Gerald Brenan1 quote
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 · 1978Happy Gilmore1 quote
I was on this tour for one reason, money. But now I got a new reason, kickin' your ass! — Happy Gilmore · 1996Howard1 quote
Yeah, I know what gold does to men's souls. — Howard · 1948Jean-Jacques Rousseau1 quote
Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1755Lou Mannheim1 quote
The main thing about money, Bud, is makes you do things you don't want to do. — Lou Mannheim · 1987Mr. Bernstein1 quote
Well, it's no trick to make a lot of money if all you want is to make a lot of money. — Mr. Bernstein · 1941Omar Little1 quote
Man, money ain’t got no owners. Only spenders. — Omar Little · 2006Oscar Wilde1 quote
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 · 1891P. Diddy1 quote
It's all about the Benjamins, baby — P. Diddy · 1997Publilius Syrus1 quote
Money alone sets all the world in motion. — Publilius Syrus · 43 BCRod Tidwell1 quote
Show me the money! — Rod Tidwell · 1996Socrates1 quote
Virtue does not come from money, but from virtue comes money and all other good things to man, both to the individual and to the state. — Socrates · 399 BCTed Turner1 quote
Life is a game... And you keep score with dollars. — Ted Turner · 1978The Beatles1 quote
Cause I don't care too much for money
Money can't buy me love. — The Beatles · 1964Thomas Babington Macaulay1 quote
We have heard it said that five per cent is the natural interest of money. — Thomas Babington Macaulay · 1830W. Somerset Maugham1 quote
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. — W. Somerset Maugham · 1915W.H. Auden1 quote
Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity. — W.H. Auden · 1973Wu-Tang Clan1 quote
Cash rules everything around me
C. R. E. A. M., get the money
Dollar dollar bill, y'all — Wu-Tang Clan · 1994