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1. "Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour."

Anthony Trollope, "The Belton Estate"

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

2. "Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old."

English proverb

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

3. "When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die."

Jean-Paul Sartre, "The Devil and the Good Lord"

Quotations about: Peace and War

4. "There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher."

Victor Hugo

Quotations about: Human

5. "People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up."

Ogden Nash

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

6. "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"

Quotations about: Memory

7. "The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday."

Georg Büchner, "The Hessian Messenger"

Quotations about: Life and Death

8. "Without the rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Essays, Second Series"

9. "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"

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

10. "Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship."

Franz Grillparzer, "Sappho"

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility -:- Love

11. "Sex is like money; only too much is enough."

John Updike, "Couples"

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

12. "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"

13. "The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine."

George Bernard Shaw, "Collected Letters"

14. "Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it."

Italian proverb

15. "Money is a poor man's credit card."

Marshall McLuhan

16. "Writing is turning one's worst moments into money."

J.P. Donleavy

Quotations about: Art and Culture

17. "Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state."

Cesare Pavese, "The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950"

Quotations about: Art and Culture

18. "There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich."

Marlene Dietrich, "Marlene Dietrich's ABC"

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

19. "Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence."

Herman Melville, "Moby-Dick"

Quotations about: Human

20. "Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth."

Rex Stout

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21. "International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood."

Eric Ambler, "A Coffin for Dimitrios"

Quotations about: Pain and Tears

22. "What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?"

Harold Rosenberg

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

23. "Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is."

Jean Anouilh, "The Lark"

Quotations about: God and Religion

24. "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

25. "My doctor gave me six months to live but when I couldn't pay the bill, he gave me six months more."

Walter Matthau

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

26. "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"

Quotations about: Authority, Government

27. "Mothers have as powerful an influence over the welfare of future generations, as all other causes combined."

John Abbott, "The Mother at Home"

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

28. "All that is not given is lost."

Rabindranath Tagore

Quotations about: Various

29. "Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody."

Benjamin Franklin

30. "Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying."

Fran Lebowitz

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

31. "Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears."

Brian Tracy

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

32. "A poor man who takes a rich wife has a ruler, not a wife."

Greek proverb

Quotations about: Marriage -:- Authority, Government

33. "In times of prosperity friends will be plenty, in times of adversity not one in twenty."

English proverb

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility

34. "Poverty is death in another form."

Latin proverb

Quotations about: Life and Death

35. "That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest."

Henry David Thoreau

36. "If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it."

John D. Rockefeller

37. "Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair."

Dorothy Parker

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

38. "All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy."

Spike Milligan

Quotations about: Happiness

39. "If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don't be surprised if you get unemployment."

Milton Friedman

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

40. "Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money."

Johnny Cash

Quotations about: Success and Fame

41. "A penny will hide the biggest star in the universe if you hold it close enough to your eye."

Samuel Grafton

42. "The less of one's life one must exchange for money, the more freedom one may enjoy."

Gerry Spence

Quotations about: Freedom and Servitude

43. "Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money."

Tertullian

Quotations about: God and Religion

44. "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

Quotations about: Marriage

45. "The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world."

Friedrich von Schiller

46. "Money is expensive during the war. Human life is more expensive. And time is the most expensive."

Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov

Quotations about: Peace and War -:- Time and Passing

47. "The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on forecasters."

Anon.

Quotations about: Science and Technology

48. "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

Quotations about: Woman and Man

49. "If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has."

John Maynard Keynes

Quotations about: Question and Problem

50. "In every well-governed state, wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing."

Anatol France

Quotations about: Authority, Government -:- Politics and Diplomacy

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