Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

Men will tell you sometimes that "money's hard." That shows it was not made to eat, I say.... Some of those who sank with the steamer the other day found out that money was heavy too.

Henry David Thoreau

If there were one who lived wholly without the use of money, the State itself would hesitate to demand it of him. But the rich man--not to make any invidious comparison--is always sold to the institution which makes him rich.... Thus his moral ground is taken from under his feet.

Henry David Thoreau

Those services which the community will most readily pay for, it is most disagreeable to render.

Henry David Thoreau

It is remarkable that there are few men so well employed, so much to their minds, but that a little money or fame would commonly buy them off from their present pursuit.

Henry David Thoreau

The truth is, there is money buried everywhere, and you have only to go to work to find it.

Henry David Thoreau

It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellowmen to have an interest in your enterprise.

Henry David Thoreau

The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.

Henry David Thoreau

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Henry David Thoreau

The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.

Henry David Thoreau

The only wealth is life.

H. L. Hunt

Money is just a way of keeping score.

Jean Paul Gaultier

My clothes have always been expensive. Even though I have had a few lower-priced lines over the years, little by little everything I do tends toward the luxury market.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The money you have gives you freedom; the money you pursue enslaves you.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Jerry Garcia

I think it's too bad that everybody's decided to turn on drugs, I don't think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money's the problem. But drugs are just drugs.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.

Grover Norquist

We want [government] down to the size to where it would fit in a bathtub, and then it could worry about what we were up to.

Groucho Marx

Firefly: Now that you're Secretary of War, what kind of an army do you think we oughta have? Chicolini: Well, I tell you what I think. I think we should have a standing army. Firefly: Why should we have a standing army? Chicolini: Because then we save money on chairs.

Groucho Marx

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Groucho Marx

Blood's not thicker than money.

Groucho Marx

While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.

Graham Greene

Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.

Gisele Bundchen

Some people start modeling because they want to be models and they want the parties and the recognition, and then there are people like me. I come from a simple family, and for me getting into modeling was a chance to make money and create a business.

Harold Wilson

One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.

Hugh Martin

If a man's religion does not affect his use of money, that man's religion is vain.

Howard Hughes

Money can't buy happiness.

Horace

A dowried wife, friends, beauty, birth, fair fame, These are the gifts of money, heavenly dame: Be but a moneyed man, persuasion tips Your tongue, and Venus settles on your lips.

Gore Vidal

The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.

Harvey S. Firestone

Thought, not money, is the real business capital...

Harold Ramis

Where's the great pay? Where's the travel? Where's the Winnebago, Goddamnit!

James Brown

I've been held responsible for taxes I know nothing about.

Gertrude Stein

It is very funny about money. The thing that differentiates man from animals is money. All animals have the same emotions and the same ways as men. Anybody who has lots of animals around knows that. But the thing no animal can do is count, and the thing no animal can know is money.