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.
Know from the bounteous heavens all riches flow;
And what man gives, the gods by man bestow.
O what a world of vile ill-favour'd faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!
Bread is made for laughter, and wine makes life enjoyable; but money answers every need.
No honest man has been able to save any money in the last twenty years.
The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.
Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed.
He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately.