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 art of living easily as to money, is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.
I just want to say that I write not for money but on impulse.
Their minds were sudden merchants: metaphor, like money, equalised the incommensurable.
The variation in the value of money, however great, makes no difference in the rate of profits;...
Your choices: spend, and believe in things; save, and believe in money.