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.

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It is possible that those who are in no way pressed down with the weight of money may be condemned with the covetous in disposition and intent. For it was the opportunity of possessing which was wanting in their case, and not the will for it.

John Cassian Institutes of the Coenobia (420)

Money and friendship bribe justice.
Beauty is potent, but money is omnipotent.

John Ray English Proverbs (1670)

Even to a wicked man a divinity gives wealth, Cyrus, but to few men comes the gift of excellence.

Theognis of Megara

Riches are deservedly despised by a man of honor, because a well-stored chest intercepts the truth.

Phaedrus

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money. Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

Cicero