Life is Nothingness's search for Something.
Christian Morgenstern
1. "Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Other categories: Success and Fame
2. "It’s not money that brings happiness, it’s lots of money."
Russian proverb
Other categories: Happiness
3. "Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour."
Anthony Trollope, "The Belton Estate"
Other categories: Health and Alcohol
4. "Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old."
English proverb
Other categories: Family and Loneliness
5. "When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die."
Jean-Paul Sartre, "The Devil and the Good Lord"
Other categories: Peace and War
6. "There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher."
Victor Hugo
Other categories: Human
7. "People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up."
Ogden Nash
Other categories: Work and Laziness
8. "A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. "
Alexander Smith, "Dreamthorp: Essays Written In The Country"
Other categories: Memory
9. "The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday."
Georg Büchner, "The Hessian Messenger"
Other categories: Life and Death
10. "Without the rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar."
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Essays, Second Series"
11. "If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water."
Herman Melville, "Israel Potter"
Other categories: Health and Alcohol
12. "Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship."
Franz Grillparzer, "Sappho"
Other categories: Friendship and Hostility -:- Love
13. "Sex is like money; only too much is enough."
John Updike, "Couples"
Other categories: Manners and Ethics
14. "The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some."
George Bernard Shaw, "Heartbreak House"
15. "The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine."
George Bernard Shaw, "Collected Letters"
16. "Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it."
Italian proverb
17. "Money is a poor man's credit card."
Marshall McLuhan
18. "Writing is turning one's worst moments into money."
J.P. Donleavy
Other categories: Art and Culture
19. "Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state."
Cesare Pavese, "The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950"
Other categories: Art and Culture
20. "There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich."
Marlene Dietrich, "Marlene Dietrich’s ABC"
Other categories: Work and Laziness
21. "Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence."
Herman Melville, "Moby-Dick"
Other categories: Human
22. "Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth."
Rex Stout
23. "International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood."
Eric Ambler, "A Coffin for Dimitrios"
Other categories: Pain and Tears
24. "What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?"
Harold Rosenberg
Other categories: Intellect, Judgement
25. "Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is."
Jean Anouilh, "The Lark"
Other categories: God and Religion
26. "Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell."
Walter Bagehot
27. "My doctor gave me six months to live but when I couldn’t pay the bill, he gave me six months more."
Walter Matthau
Other categories: Health and Alcohol
28. "In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other."
François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), "Philosophical Dictionary"
Other categories: Authority, Government
29. "Mothers have as powerful an influence over the welfare of future generations, as all other causes combined."
John Abbott, "The Mother at Home"
Other categories: Family and Loneliness
30. "All that is not given is lost."
Rabindranath Tagore
Other categories: Various
31. "Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody."
Benjamin Franklin
32. "Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying."
Fran Lebowitz
Other categories: Family and Loneliness
33. "Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears."
Brian Tracy
Other categories: Intellect, Judgement
34. "A poor man who takes a rich wife has a ruler, not a wife."
Greek proverb
Other categories: Marriage -:- Authority, Government
35. "In times of prosperity friends will be plenty, in times of adversity not one in twenty."
English proverb
Other categories: Friendship and Hostility
36. "Poverty is death in another form."
Latin proverb
Other categories: Life and Death
37. "That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest."
Henry David Thoreau
38. "If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it."
John D. Rockefeller
39. "Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair."
Dorothy Parker
Other categories: Health and Alcohol
40. "All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy."
Spike Milligan
Other categories: Happiness
41. "If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don't be surprised if you get unemployment."
Milton Friedman
Other categories: Work and Laziness
42. "Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money."
Johnny Cash
Other categories: Success and Fame
43. "A penny will hide the biggest star in the universe if you hold it close enough to your eye."
Samuel Grafton
44. "The less of one's life one must exchange for money, the more freedom one may enjoy."
Gerry Spence
Other categories: Freedom and Servitude
45. "Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money."
Tertullian
Other categories: God and Religion
46. "I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year."
Bette Davis
Other categories: Marriage
47. "The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world."
Friedrich von Schiller
48. "Money is expensive during the war. Human life is more expensive. And time is the most expensive."
Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov
Other categories: Peace and War -:- Time and Passing
49. "The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on forecasters."
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Other categories: Science and Technology
50. "Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money."
Satchel Paige
Other categories: Woman and Man
2007, collected and compiled by Kazimierz Matan
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