money Quotes

“Yes, the money-changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilisation. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than...”

― Franklin D. Roosevelt, Looking Forward

topic:society money value

“In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

topic:virtue money sin

“As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all — the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

topic:life money choice

“the typical modern man desires to get with it is more money, with a view to ostentation, splendour, and the outshining of those who have hitherto been his equals.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

topic:money equality

“That’s the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

topic:life money

“That the American, by temperament, worked to excess, was true; work and whiskey were his stimulants; work was a form of vice; but he never cared much for money or power after he earned them.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

topic:work money

“Six shillings a week does not keep body and soul together very unitedly. They want to get away from each other when there is only such a very slight bond as that between them”

― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

topic:poverty money

“I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of Songs and Sonnets here.”

― William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor

topic:books money poetry

“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, Atlas Shrugged

topic:money

“You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it.”

― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

topic:age money

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