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.
Love is the grandest thing on God's earth, but fortunate the lover who has plenty of money.
Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.
Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.
For wealth, without contentment, climbs a hill,
To feel those tempests which fly over ditches.
Let none admire
That riches grow in hell; that soil may best
Deserve the precious bane.
Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace;
If not, by any means get wealth and place.
No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.