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.
Wealth has never yet sacrificed itself on the altar of patriotism.
Subject to a kind of disease, which at that time they called lack of money.
If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.
Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.
Money can always be traced. It leaves a trail of slime behind it wherever it goes.
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth.
Every man's credit is proportioned to the money which he has in his chest.
Money nowadays is money; money brings office; money gains friends; everywhere the poor man is down.