The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
- Mark Twain, Pudd'n'head Wilson, 1894
The borrower is slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor.
- Thoughts by Benjamin Franklin from Poor Richard's Almanac, or from his letters, on life and prosperity.
The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.
- Frank Hubbard
There is a very easy way to return from a casino with a small fortune: go there with a large one.
- Jack Yelton
We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.
- Gloria Steinem
My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.
- Errol Flynn
The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave of the lender.
- Proverbs 22:7
Car sickness is the feeling you get when the monthly payment is due.
- Author Unknown
Inflation hasn't ruined everything. A dime can still be used as a screwdriver.
- Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
- Mark Twain
There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.
- Robert Graves
I cannot afford to waste my time making money.
- Louis Agassiz
They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.
- George Savile, Complete Works, 1912
When I have money, I get rid of it quickly, lest it find a way into my heart.
- John Wesley
It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.
- Author Unknown
Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.
- Cree Indian Proverb
The only reason a great many American families don't own an elephant is that they have never been offered an elephant for a dollar down and easy weekly payments.
- Mad Magazine
I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
- Pablo Picasso
No matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs back.
- Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
There are people who have money and people who are rich.
- Coco Chanel
"Your money, or your life." We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does.
- Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.
- George Horace Lorimer
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.
- Bob Hope
Always borrow money from a pessimist, he doesn't expect to be paid back.
- Author Unknown
If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.
- Author Unknown
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben
If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
- Earl Wilson
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
- Woody Allen
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy you the kind of misery you prefer.
- Author Unknown
Money often costs too much.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The waste of money cures itself, for soon there is no more to waste.
- M.W. Harrison
I'm so poor I can't even pay attention.
- Ron Kittle, 1987
If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.
- Henry Fielding
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
- Oscar Wilde
The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters.
- Jean-Paul Kauffmann
Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.
- Carl Sandburg
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
- Aristotle Onassis
Money is much more exciting than anything it buys.
- Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Money is human happiness in the abstract; and so the man who is no longer capable of enjoying such happiness in the concrete, sets his whole heart on money.
- Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena, 1851
Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money - or the want of money; but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
- Samuel Butler, Notebooks, 1912
Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
- Henry Wheeler Shaw
We ought to change the legend on our money from "In God We Trust" to "In Money We Trust." Because, as a nation, we've got far more faith in money these days than we do in God.
- Arthur Hoppe, 1963
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