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.
There is no evil that is not fostered and encouraged for the sake of making money.
I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
So true it is that love of money alone is incapable of dreading death by the sword.
The room for maneuver, to live on borrowed money or time, does not exist any more.
Love for lineage nothing cares,
Tramples wisdom under foot,
Worth derides, and only looks
For money.
He’ll be back. Men always come back when they see you making money.
We were playing for the glory of the USSR and for the love of football, not for the money.