Money Quotes

Wealth, poverty, and everything the ledger can and can't measure.

13074 quotes

"Money provides freedom only to those wise enough to use it with restraint."
Eliza Haywood
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"Money is not required to buy one's way into the good society, according to the best families."
Samuel Johnson
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"The curse of wealth is the consciousness of wealth."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Money is merely solidified opportunity, nothing more and nothing less."
Aphra Behn
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"Money cannot buy the things that matter most."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"Money is a means, not an end."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart."
Jonathan Swift
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"Getting money is not all a man's business: to get it is nothing, to keep it is something, to spend it is everything."
Jonathan Swift
"Money is a tool, not a master, for those wise enough to use it."
Aphra Behn
"Money is frozen time; spend it as you would your days."
Aphra Behn
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"Money is a servant to some and a master to others; choose wisely."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Money cannot buy the things the heart truly desires."
Aphra Behn
J
"Most of mankind are the worshippers of Fortune, and not Virtue."
Jonathan Swift
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"A fool and his money are soon parted."
Jonathan Swift
"Money can purchase many things, but not genuine happiness."
Eliza Haywood
"Money is but numbered time, and time cannot be bought."
Christina Rossetti
"Money is frozen time; spend it wisely."
Christina Rossetti
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"Money cannot buy happiness, but it can remove many of the obstacles to it."
Samuel Johnson
S
"Resolve not to be poor; whatever you have, spend less."
Samuel Johnson
"The pursuit of wealth often leads to the loss of virtue."
Aphra Behn
E
"Money is a good servant, but a bad master."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"Money is a tool, not a master, and should be treated as such."
Christina Rossetti
"Money cannot buy happiness, but wisdom teaches us its proper use."
Christina Rossetti
"Money means power for the time being."
Robert Browning
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"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it."
Knut Hamsun
J
"Money can buy many things, but it cannot buy happiness."
Johan Christian Andersen
J
"Money is a tool, not a master."
Johan Christian Andersen
"Wealth gained hastily will dwindle, but gathering little by little increases it."
Robert Browning
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"Money is a tool, not a master."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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"Money gained without honor is poverty of the soul."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson