He that would have a short Lent, let him borrow money to be repaid at Easter.
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.
With the breakdown of money economy the practice of international barter is becoming prevalent.
Truth has anciently been called the first casualty of war. Money may, in fact, have priority.
Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government.
It is better to be addicted to opium than to be addicted to money.
Your money saved us for three days. It's not often that money saves a person's life.
Mauthen ain’t much for listenen. Nothin’ plugs a man’s ears like money.