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.
Money is the source of the greatest vice, and that nation which is most rich, is most wicked.
Money, which is of very uncertain value, and sometimes has no value at all and even less.
To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
Whoever said money can't solve your problems must not have had enough money to solve them.
Money is an agreement within a community to use something as a medium of exchange.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.
Truly, it is not want, but rather abundance, that breeds avarice.