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Subject to a kind of disease, which at that time they called lack of money. - Francois Rabelais, Works (bk. II, ch. XVI) No money, no Swiss. [Fr., Point d'argent, point de Suisse.] - Jean Baptiste Racine, Plaideurs (I, 1) Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. - Ayn Rand Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have. - Will Rogers But few prize honour more than money. - Sallust (Caius Sallustius Crispus) Mammon is the largest slaveholder in the world. - Frederick Saunders Money makes a man laugh. - John Selden When money represents many things, not to love it would be to love nearly nothing. To forget true needs can be only a feeble moderation; but to know the value of money and to sacrifice it always, maybe to duty, maybe even to delicacy,--that is real virtue. - Etiene Pivert de Senancour Fidelity, purchased with money, money can destroy. - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) Money does all things for reward; some are pious and honest so long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party. - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) He that wants money, means and content, is without three good friends. - William Shakespeare If money go before, all ways do lie open. - William Shakespeare This yellow slave Will knit and break religions; bless the accurs'd; Make the hoar leprosy ador'd; place thieves, And give them title, knee, and approbation, With senators on the bench. - William Shakespeare We are all bastards, And that most venerable man which I Did call my father was I know not where When I was stamped. Some coiner with his tools Made me a counterfeit; yet my mother seemed The Dian of that time. - William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (Posthumus at II, v) Good Sir John, I sue for yours--not to charge you--for I must let you understand I think myself in better plight for a lender than you are, the which hath something emboldened me to this unseasoned intrusion; for they say if money go before, all ways do lie open. - William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor (Ford at II, ii) Money is a good soldier, sir, and will on. - William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor (Falstaff at II, ii) Why, give him gold enough and marry him to a puppet or an aglet-baby or an old trot with ne'er a tooth in her head, though she have as many diseases as two and fifty horses. Why, nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal. - William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew (Grumio at I, ii) The trouble, Mr. Goldwyn, is that you are only interested in art and I am only interested in money. - George Bernard Shaw, The Great Goldwyn, by Alva Johnson Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis. - George Bernard Shaw, The Irrational Knot Money makes a man laugh. - John Shelden The persons who have the most sublime contempt for money are the same that have the strongest appetite for the pleasures it enables them to procure. - William Shenstone Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income. - Logan Pearsall Smith The avaricious love of gain, which is so feelingly deplored, appears to us a principle which, in able hands, might be guided to the most salutary purposes. The object is to encourage the love of labor, which is best encouraged by the love of money. - Sydney Smith Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money. - Sophocles All love has something of blindness in it,--especially the love of money. - Bishop Robert South Displaying page 9 of 11 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 [9] 10 11
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