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.
No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life.
An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
They’ve got the usual Socialist disease – they’ve run out of other people's money.
The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.
A crowded police docket is the surest of all signs that trade is brisk and money plenty.
The circulation of commodities is the original precondition of the circulation of money.
Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth.
Money is therefore not only the object but also the fountainhead of greed.