Millions of dollars later, and neither of them were happy. Money is wasted on the rich.
Money Quotes
Karl Marx and Robert Kiyosaki are tied for the most entries here, which is about as wide a spread of opinion as one page can hold. The sourced quotes lean towards the sceptics. Thoreau’s journal for 1838 says the richest man is the one whose pleasures are the cheapest. Chesterton, in his novel The Flying Inn (1914), is less polite about the rich.
“The lack of money is the root of all evil” is credited to Mark Twain, and it does appear in a posthumous piece of his from 1905. It had already been in print, though. Wikiquote finds it in 1872, set in quotation marks as if readers would know it, and a similar remark about gold in a magazine from 1859.
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
If our nation can issue a dollar bond, it can issue a dollar bill.
The wealth ov a person should be estimated, not bi the amount he haz, but bi the use he makes ov it.
Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrer [sic] money to do it with.
Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold,
And almost every vice — almighty gold.
And all you men, whom greatness does so please,
Ye feast, I fear, like Damocles.
I hate almost all rich people, but I think I'd be darling at it.
The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it.
The beautiful eyes of my money-box!
He speaks of it as a lover of his mistress.