Quotes about money
243 quotes from 153 people
Donald Trumpborn 1946Interview with Ashleigh Banfield on ABC’s Good Morning America (17 March 2011)Gold is a living god and rules in scorn,
All earthly things but virtue.
Percy Bysshe Shelley1792–1822Queen Mab (1813), Canto V- ECEmil Cioran1911–1995The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826Letter to Colonel Edward Carrington (16 January 1787)
Rutherford B. Hayes1822–1893Diary (13 July 1879)
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
Aeschylus525–456 BCFragment 392 (220 Smyth), from an unidentified play. Included in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
John Updike1932–2009Couples (1968), Ch. 5
Mark Twain1835–1910Following the Equator (1897), Ch. 38, Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar.
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881Henrietta Temple (1837), Book 2, chapter 1.
Francis Bacon1561–1626De Augmentis Scientiarum, Book II, “Antitheta” (1623)
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936The Flying Inn (1914), Ch. XV: “The Songs of the Car Club”
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Major Barbara (1905), Preface
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Journal (11 March 1856)
Baltasar Gracián1601–1658The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647), Maxim 157 (p. 89)