So you think that money is the root of all evil? Have you ever asked what is the root of money?
—Ayn Rand
The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.
—D. H. Lawrence
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
—Woody Allen
Money does not corrupt people. What corrupts people is lack of affection.… Money is simply the bandage which wounded people put over their wounds.
—Margaret Halsey
Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
—Bill Vaughan
I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.
—Mary Roberts Rinehart
Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.
—Michael Crichton
I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.
—Oscar Wilde
The real measure of our wealth is how much we'd be worth if we lost all our money.
—John Henry Jowett
Try not to be a man or woman of success, but rather a man or woman of inspiration. If you're successful, they will flock to you for money or fame, but if you're inspirational, they will flock to you because they love your soul and how you change theirs.
—Shannon L. Alder
All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysands to foist their problems onto the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defense. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health.
—Germaine Greer
Reconsider your definitions. We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.
—Martin Luther King Jr.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
—Groucho Marx
Yes, they have more money.
—Ernest Hemingway, replying to F. Scott Fitzgerald
Indeed, I thought, slipping the silver into my purse, it is remarkable, remembering the bitterness of those days, what a change of temper a fixed income will bring about.
—Virginia Woolf