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It takes a lot of money to look this cheap.
Dolly Parton1946–2026Interview with Vanity Fair magazine (November 2012)
- Comedy
Your Highnesses have an Other World here, by which our holy faith can be so greatly advanced and from which such great wealth can be drawn.
Christopher Columbus1451–1506Letter to the Sovereigns (1498)
- Christianity
I love men! I think men are the coolest, but you don’t really need them to live. My mom said to me, ‘You know, sweetheart, one day you should settle down and marry a rich man.’ I said, ‘Mom, I am a rich man.’
Cherborn 19461996 interview with Jane Pauley for Dateline, quoted in “Taylor Swift Referenced This Iconic Cher Quote In The “You Need To Calm Down” Video” Bustle (June 17, 2019)
- Comedy
- Men
I have made an extreme effort to stay true to my boundaries and protect myself and my family. No amount of money is worth my peace.
Beyoncéborn 1981Beyoncé Says She Builds Her Work Schedule ‘Around My Family’: ‘No Amount of Money Is Worth My Peace’ People (September 10, 2024).
I don’t believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Speech at New Haven, Connecticut (6 March 1860)
- Laws
The people who believe most that our greatness and welfare are proved by our being very rich, and who most give their lives and thoughts to becoming rich, are just the very people whom we call the Philistines.
Matthew Arnold1822–1888Culture and Anarchy (1869), Ch. I, Sweetness and Light
The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson — and I am not wholly excepting the Administration of W. W.
Franklin D. Roosevelt1882–1945Letter to Col. Edward Mandell House (21 November 1933); as quoted in F.D.R.: His Personal Letters, 1928-1945, edited by Elliott Roosevelt (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1950), pg. 373
- Government
When all the world is a gift in motion, how wealthy we become.
Robin Wall Kimmererborn 1953Braiding Sweetgrass (2013), p. 31
- Nature
Money and credit are as much human contrivances as bicycles, and as liable to expansion and modification as any other sort of prevalent but imperfect machine.
H. G. Wells1866–1946Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought (1901), The Faith, Morals, and Public Policy of The New Republic, pp. 340–343
- Economics
The life of a single human being is worth a million times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.
Che Guevara1928–1967On Revolutionary Medicine (1960)
- Life & Death
Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.
Franklin D. Roosevelt1882–1945Address at Madison Square Garden (1936)
- Government
A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.
Wendell Berry1934–2026“The Total Economy”, in Citizenship Papers (2003)
- Business
Possession make you rich? I don’t have that type of richness. My richness is Life, forever.
Bob Marley1945–1981Interview for the Australian TV programme 60 Minutes (1979)
I’m not technically rich, but I do have a lot of shit that I don’t need, and I refuse to share with others.
Maria Bamfordborn 1970The Now Show (2006)
- Comedy
“You can’t buy love with money.” Only a poor person says that.
Gene Simmonsborn 1949What I’ve Learned (July 2002)
- Love