Quotes about money
243 quotes from 153 people
Aeschylus525–456 BCFragment 392 (220 Smyth), from an unidentified play. Included in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Woody Allenborn 1935Without Feathers (1975), “The Early Essays”.
Martin Amis1949–2023Einstein’s Monsters (1987), “Introduction: Thinkability”
Matthew Arnold1822–1888Culture and Anarchy (1869), Ch. I, Sweetness and Light
Isaac Asimov1920–1992Half-Breed (p. 160)
W. H. Auden1907–1973Forewords and Afterwords (1973)People always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Francis Bacon1561–1626De Augmentis Scientiarum, Book II, “Antitheta” (1623)
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)
