Money and Wealth: A Book of Quotations
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| ISBN-13: | 9780486486383 |
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| Publisher: | Dover Publications |
| Publication date: | 03/21/2013 |
| Pages: | 256 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.40(w) x 5.40(h) x 0.60(d) |
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Money and Wealth
A Book of Quotation$
By JOSLYN PINE
Dover Publications, Inc.
Copyright © 2013 Dover Publications, Inc.All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-486-48638-3
CHAPTER 1
ATTRIBUTED QUOTATIONS: BC TO THE PRESENT
Money is life to us wretched mortals.
Little to little added, if oft done, in small time makes a good possession.
Hesiod (C. 700 BC), Greek poet
Cursed be he above all others
Who's enslaved by love of money.
Money takes the place of brothers,
Money takes the place of parents,
Money brings us war and slaughter.
Anacreon (C. 582–485 BC), Greek poet
Do not work to make money for money's sake.
Buddha (C. 563–483 BC), Indian spiritual leader
Money can turn a lowly worm into a mighty dragon.
Money in the hands of a bachelor is as good as gone.
He who hasn't a penny sees bargains everywhere.
The gold does not belong to the miser, but the miser to the gold.
The injury of prodigality leads to this, that he that will not economize will have to agonize.
Confucius (551–479 BC), Chinese philosopher and teacher
For money, you would sell your soul.
You will see more ruined than saved by money ill gotten.
Profit is sweet even if it comes from deception.
Sophocles (C. 496–406 BC), Greek playwright
Money is the wise man's religion.
Euripides (C. 484–406 BC), Greek playwright
Wealth is a lot of things a man can do without.
Socrates (C. 470–399 BC), Greek philosopher
Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
Plato (C. 427–347 BC), Greek philosopher
Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest.
Aristotle (384–322 BC), Greek philosopher
No one gets rich quickly if he is honest.
Riches cover a multitude of woes.
Let him who weds wed character, not money.
Menander (C. 342–292 BC), Greek playwright
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not to his riches but take away from his desires.
Epicurus (341–270 BC), Greek philosopher
After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the miser was so hopping mad he hanged himself.
Lucilius (C. 160–103 BC), Roman satirist
Above all is he admired who is not influenced by money.
There is no sanctuary so holy that money cannot profane it, no fortress so strong that money cannot take it by storm.
Cicero (106–43 BC), Roman statesman, orator and writer
When reason rules, money is a blessing.
Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.
Money does not sate Avarice, but stimulates it.
Fortune is like glass—the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
Publilius Syrus (C. 100 BC), Latin poet and playwright
Make money: make it honestly if possible; if not, make it by any means.
A heart well-prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
Though you strut proud of your money, yet fortune has not changed your birth.
Horace (65–8 BC), Roman poet and satirist
We feel public misfortunes just so far as they affect our private circumstances, and nothing of this nature appeals more directly to us than the loss of money.
Livy (59 BC–AD 17), Roman historian
When every man worships gold, all other reverence is done away.
Propertius (C. 50–after 16 BC), Roman poet
Money is now the prize. Wealth in its train brings honors, and brings friendships; he who's poor is ever cast aside.
Gold will buy the highest honors; and gold will purchase love.
Ovid (43 BC–AD 18), Roman poet
Not he who has little, but he who wishes more, is poor.
A good mind possesses a kingdom; a great fortune is a great slavery.
Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.
Money is a greater torment in the possession, than it is in the pursuit; the fear of losing it is a great trouble, the loss of it a greater, and it is made a greater yet by opinion.
Seneca (4 BC–AD 65), Roman philosopher and playwright
Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money.
The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.
Seneca (4 BC–AD 65)
What power has law where only money rules?
Petronius Arbiter (?–C. AD 65), Roman satirist
It is a hard thing not to surrender morals for riches.
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
Martial (C. AD 40–104), Roman poet
When the strong box contains no more, both friends and flatterers shun the door.
Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.
Plutarch (C. AD 46–120), Greek biographer and philosopher
Lampis the shipowner, on being asked how he acquired his great wealth, replied: "My great wealth was acquired with no difficulty, but my small wealth, my first gains, with much labor."
Epictetus (C. AD 55–135), Greek philosopher
The love of money grows with growing wealth.
Money lost is bewailed with unfeigned tears.
Juvenal (C. AD 55–130), Roman poet
Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.
Tertullian (C. AD 160–230), Roman theologian
If you would get rid of a disagreeable person, lend him money.
Francesco Accursius (1182–1260), Italian jurist and writer
Love lasteth long as the money endureth.
William Caxton (C. 1422–1491), English writer, printer and diplomat
A man who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.
Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), Italian painter, architect and scientist
A little wanton money ... burned out the bottom of his purse.
Sir Thomas More (1478–1535), English writer, statesman and theologian
The god of this world is riches, pleasure, and pride, wherewith it abuses all the creatures and gifts of God.
Martin Luther (1483–1546), German theologian and teacher
He left a paper sealed up, wherein were found three articles as his last will, "I owe much, I have nothing, I give the rest to the poor."
François Rabelais (C. 1494–1553), French writer and humanist
Bad money drives out good. [Gresham's law]
Sir Thomas Gresham (1519–1579), English philosopher and banker
With money you would not know yourself; without money no one would know you.
The money paid, the work delayed.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616), Spanish novelist, poet and playwright
Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that it may be said to possess him.
The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.
Be not penny-wise; riches have wings, and sometimes they fly away of themselves, sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.
Francis Bacon (1561–1626), English philosopher and statesman
Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.
Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593), English poet and playwright
This yellow slave
Will knit and break religions; bless the accurs'd;
Make the hoar leprosy ador'd; place thieves,
And give them title, knee, and approbation,
With senators on the bench.
If money go before, all ways do lie open.
If thou art rich, thou art poor;
For like an ass, whose back with ingots bows
Thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey,
And death unloads thee.
I had rather than forty shillings, I had my book of songs and sonnets here.
If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not
As to thy friends ...
But lend it rather to thine enemy,
Who, if he break, thou mayst with better face
Exact the penalty.
O, what a world of vile ill-favour'd faults looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!
Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail,
And say, there is no sin, but to be rich;
And being rich, my virtue then shall be
To say, there is no vice, but beggary.
He that dies, pays all debts.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), English poet and playwright
Money thou need'st: 'Twill keep thee honest; want made thee a knave.
Ben Jonson (1572–1637), English playwright
If thou wouldst keep money, save money; if thou wouldst reap money, sow money.
Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.
Help me to money and I'll help myself to friends.
God makes, and apparel shapes: but it's money that finishes the man.
Thomas Fuller (1608–1661), English theologian, writer and historian
Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.
John Milton (1608–1674), English poet and essayist
War requires three things—money, money, money.
Montecucculi (C. 1608–1680), Italian military leader
'Tis virtue, wit, and worth, and all
That men divine and sacred call:
For what is worth in anything,
But so much money as 'twill bring?
'Tis true we've money, th' only power that all mankind falls down before.
Wealth is nothing in itself; it is not useful but when it departs from us.
Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
Money has a power above the stars and fate, to manage love.
Samuel Butler (1612–1680), English poet and satirist
Money does all things; for it gives and takes away, it makes honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so forward, mutatis mutandis, to the end of the chapter.
Sir Roger l'Estrange (1616–1704), English journalist and essayist
Money was made not to command our will, but all our lawful pleasures to fulfill; shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey—the horse doth with the horseman run away.
Abraham Cowley (1618–1667), English poet and essayist
If we from wealth to poverty descend, want gives to know the flatterer from the friend.
Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, so others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
Fortune befriends the bold.
John Dryden (1631–1700), English poet and playwright
Money makes up in a measure all other wants in men.
William Wycherley (C.1640–1715), English playwright
If making money is a slow process, losing it is quickly done.
Ihara Saikaku (1642–1693), Japanese poet and novelist
The spendthrift robs his heirs, the miser robs himself.
Jean de la Bruyère (1645–1696), French essayist
Riches are a burden ... There is a burden of care in getting them, fear in keeping them, temptation in using them, guilt in abusing them, sorrow in losing them, and a burden of account at last to be given up concerning them.
Matthew Henry (1662–1714), English theologian and biblical scholar
Money is the lifeblood of the nation.
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745), Anglo-Irish novelist and satirist
Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant, accommodates itself to the meanest capacities, silences the loud and clamorous, and brings over the most obstinate and inflexible.
Joseph Addison (1672–1719), English poet, playwright and essayist
Let all the learned say all they can, 'Tis ready money makes the man.
William Somerville (1675–1742), English poet
Money is the sinews of love, as of war.
George Farquhar (1678–1707), Irish playwright
Can wealth give happiness? look round and see
What gay distress! what splendid misery!
Whatever fortune lavishly can pour,
The mind annihilates, and calls for more.
Edward Young (1683–1765), English poet and playwright
Why lose we life in anxious cares,
To lay in hoards for future years?
Can those (when tortur'd by disease)
Cheer our sick heart, or purchase ease?
Can those prolong one gasp of breath,
Or calm the troubled hour of death?
John Gay (1688–1732), English poet and playwright
But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
Trade it may help, society extend,
But lures the pirate, and corrupts the friend;
It raises armies in a nation's aid,
But bribes a senate, and the land's betray'd.
Alexander Pope (1688–1744), English poet and satirist
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
It is easier to write on money than to obtain it, and those who gain it, jest much at those who only know how to write about it.
Voltaire (1694–1778), French novelist, poet and playwright
A light purse is a heavy curse.
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some; for he that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.
Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), American writer, diplomat and scientist
Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way.
If you'd lose a troublesome visitor, lend him money.
There are three faithful friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
A little house well filled, a little field well tilled, and a little wife well willed, are great riches.
If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to the other world?
Remember that time is money.
A man who multiplies riches, multiplies cares.
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
Money is the fruit of evil as often as the root of it.
Money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich—that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.
If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.
Henry Fielding (1707–1754), English novelist
It is better to live rich than to die rich.
The lust of gold succeeds the rags of conquest:
The lust of gold unfeeling and remorseless!
The last corruption of degenerate man.
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
Money can neither open up new avenues to pleasure, nor block up the passages of anguish.
To purchase Heaven has gold the power?
Can gold remove the mortal hour?
In life can love be bought with gold?
Are friendship's pleasures to be sold?
Wealth is nothing in itself, it is not useful but when it departs from us.
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), English writer and lexicographer
Money is not, properly speaking, one of the subjects of commerce, but only the instrument which men have agreed upon to facilitate the exchange of one commodity for another.
David Hume (1711–1776), Scottish philosopher and historian
Money is the seed of money and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), French philosopher
A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
William Shenstone (1714–1763), English poet
Money is oftentimes the only patent of nobility, beside lofty pretensions.
Johann Georg Zimmermann (1728–1795), Swiss philosopher, writer and physician
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