Quotes about money
243 quotes from 153 people
It’s class warfare. My class is winning, but they shouldn’t be.
Warren Buffettborn 1930Interview with Lou Dobbs on CNN (25 May 2005)There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.
Alan Mooreborn 1953About the film adaptation of V for Vendetta, in an MTV interview “Alan Moore: The Last Angry Man”When an actor has money, he doesn’t send letters but telegrams.
Anton Chekhov1860–1904Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire1694–1778Letter to Mme. d’Épinal, Ferney (26 December 1760) from Oeuvres Complètes de Voltaire: Correspondance (Garnier frères, Paris, 1881), vol. IX, letter # 4390 (p. 124)This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Third State of the Union AddressA woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
Virginia Woolf1882–1941A Room of One’s Own (1929), Ch. 1, p. 4The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.
Euripides481–407 BCFrg. 7 (Bartlett’s, 9th ed. 1892)The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays (1935), Ch. 1: In Praise of IdlenessWilt thou seal up the avenues of ill?
Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882May-Day and Other Pieces (1867), FragmentHaving, First, gained all you can, and, Secondly saved all you can, Then give all you can.
John Wesley1703–1791Sermon 50 “The Use of Money” in The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A.M. (1840) edited by John Emory, Vol. I, p. 446Economy is the art of making the most of life. The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Man and Superman (1903), p. 235In every well-governed state, wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.
Anatole France1844–1924L’Île des Pingouins [Penguin Island] (1908), Book VI: Les Temps Modernes, Ch. II: PyrotThe selfish spirit of commerce knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826Letter to Larkin Smith (1809)
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
H. L. Mencken1880–1956A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)