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.
Sleep came to them, quick and easy, like money to millionaires. (p261)
Thug: This is a stickup! Now come on. Your money or your life.
“Flattery will get you nowhere,” I said, “unless you accompany it with large sums of money.”
[T]here are better ways to measure progress than in terms of money.
I refuse to make money out of my science. My laurel is not for sale like so many bales of cotton.