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.
The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.
He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, And considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.
Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.
I wonder why rich people always grow fat—I suppose it's because there's nothing to worry them.
As I always say, keep your friends rich, and your enemies rich, and then find out which is which.
If your Riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to t'other world?
Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
Public opinion always wants easy money, that is, low interest rates.
A man will be generally very old and feeble before he forgets how much money he has in the funds.