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.
Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.
No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.
People are not saints just because they haven't got much money or education.
I never really drove a cab, but I do have a hack license in case of emergencies – like no money.
For what is worth in anything
But so much money as 't will bring?