Each piece of money is a mere coin, or means of circulation, only so long as it actually circulates.
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.
Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.
Giving alms is only a virtuous deed when you give money that you yourself worked to get.
The courtesans, as Vandeuvres used to say, avenged public morality by emptying his money bags.
There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter.
The more money an American accumulates the less interesting he himself becomes.
You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
Big money seeks out the company of its own, for purposes of reproduction.
Remember what being an adult is: It has nothing to do with money or awards.
The sitting room is subdued, symmetrical; it’s one of the shapes money takes when it freezes.
It is impossible to add the stock of money to the flow of saving.