Quotations about

Money

Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.

—Fannie Hurst

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.

—Jackie Kennedy

Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.

—Evan Esar

Most couples get married because it's time, not because they're in love. They might have money issues, parental pressure, or they're simply tired of being alone—so they pick Mr. Good Enough and tie the knot.

—H.M. Ward in The Wedding Contract

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.

—Bob Hope

If one person is unkind to an animal, it is considered to be cruelty, but where a lot of people are unkind to animals, especially in the name of commerce, the cruelty is condoned and, once sums of money are at stake, will be defended to the last by otherwise intelligent people.

—Ruth Harrison

Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

—Ann Radcliffe

There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

—Ann Radcliffe

I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.

—April Foiles

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

—Benjamin Franklin

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

—Benjamin Franklin

Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

—Charles Caleb Colton

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

—Charles Dickens

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

—Cicero

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

—Donald Trump