If capital and labor ever do get together it's good night for the rest of us. Kin Hubbard
Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread. Francis Bacon
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments. Samuel Johnson
What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more. Samuel Johnson
All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil. Samuel Johnson
As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith. Koran
You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich. Henry Ward Beecher
The two most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque enclosed". Dorothy Parker
Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius. Albert Pike
It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary that money should love you. Mayer Rothschild
Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness and ugliness. George Bernard Shaw
The seven deadly sins...Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes,respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted. George Bernard Shaw
Money can help you to get medicines but not health. Money can help you to get soft pillows, but not sound sleep. Money can help you to get material comforts, but not eternal bliss. Money can help you to get ornaments, but not beauty. Money will help you to get an electric earphone, but not natural hearing. Attain the supreme wealth, wisdom;you will have everything. Sivananda
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. Henry David Thoreau
In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents? Mark Twain
There is an old-time toast which is golden for its beauty. "When you ascend the hill of prosperity may you not meet a friend. Mark Twain
Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know. Mark Twain
When is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. Voltaire