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A penny saved is a penny earned.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Preface, Poor Richard’s Almanack (1758)
If you’re given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.
Katharine Hepburn1907–2003
- Sex
Cocaine is God’s way of telling someone that they’re too rich.
Robin Williams1951–2014
- Clever Jabs
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
RBRobert J. BurdetteOften credited to Mark Twain
Time is money.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Advice to a Young Tradesman, Written by an Old One (1748), as quoted by Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Chapter II: The Spirit of Capitalism, 1905. [//www.archive.org/download/littlemasterpiec00fran/littlemasterpiec00fra
- Time
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Napoleon1769–1821
- Anti-Religion
Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million, but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.
Arnold Schwarzeneggerborn 1947
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, and you will have everything.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790
- Wisdom
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
Mark Twain1835–1910American Claimant (1892)
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. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; “Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith.”
DDDavid Alfred Doudney1811–1894Often credited to Benjamin Franklin
Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.
Confucius551–479 BC
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950
Money doesn’t talk, it swears.
Bob Dylanborn 1941Bringing It All Back Home (1965)