Quotes about money

And I love what money does to you humans. It’s the only thing that saves you from being totally tedious.

Money... is most universal and most efficient system of mutual trust ever devised.

They said it was the only way to stop her running up debts, but the best way to stop her running up debts was to give her more money.

Never use a conditional tense when it comes to money.

Looks didn’t last forever and she wasn’t ready for religion yet. Money was kind of a good compromise, staked up somewhere between cosmetics and eternity.

For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for. Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes. Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.

How much greater confidence has an advocate, retained with a large fee, in the justice of his cause! How much better does his bold manner make his case appear to the judges, deceived as they are by appearances! How ludicrous is reason, blown with a breath in every direction!

Money doesn’t automatically mean taste.

Our representative government now is perhaps more representative than it has ever been before in history. It is not necessarily representative per capita, but it most surely is ad valorem. If you like philosophical problems. Here is one for you: should each human being’s vote register alike, as the lawbooks pretend and as some say the founders of our nation desired? Or should a vote be weighted according to the wisdom, the power, and the influence—that is, the money—of the voter?

In times of badness, gold is being worth more than beauty.

If money is the aim and object of those who squabble for power, then there is clearly no harm in money being the objective of the poor voters.

When the choice is debt or death, best to borrow.