Quotes about money
243 quotes from 153 people
Will Rogers1879–1935As quoted in …If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person.
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910Path of Life (1909), p. 89Just for a handful of silver he left us,
Just for a riband to stick in his coat.
Robert Browning1812–1889Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Margaret Thatcher1925–2013TV interview for Thames TV This Week (5 February 1976)Economy, in the estimation of common minds, often means the absence of all taste and comfort.
Sydney Smith1771–1845Lady Holland’s Memoir (1855), Vol. I, ch. 8, p. 263
Ben Jonson1572–1637Every Man in His Humour (1598)
Augustine of Hippo354–430Patrologia Latina, vol. 37, p. 1922A trifling debt makes a man your debtor; a large one makes him an enemy.
Seneca the Younger5 BC–AD 65Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XIX: On worldliness and retirement, Line 11.It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Seneca the Younger5 BC–AD 65Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter II: On discursiveness in reading, Line 6.
James Baldwin1924–1987“The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy”Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
James Baldwin1924–1987“Fifth Avenue, Uptown: a Letter from Harlem” originally in Esquire (July 1960)
Epicurus342–270 BCThe Essential Epicurus: Letters, Principal Doctrines, Vatican sayings, and fragments (1993) edited by Eugene Michael O’Connor, p. 99
