Money
Quotes - Exhaust your worries and they will soon leave you
“Akin
to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly
assumed, that we may be adequately represented by money. The giving of money
has thus become our characteristic virtue. But to give is not to do. The money
is given in lieu of action, thought, care, time.”
―
Wendell Berry
“Poets
are never unemployed, just unpaid.”
―
Kathy Skaggs
“Stop thinking about class, she'd say. Like a
rich man telling a poor man to stop thinking about money.”
―
John Fowles, The Collector
“I
could marry the Devil himself if he had some money.”
―
Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
“It
turned out that capitalism alone could make people not only rich and happy but
also poor, hungry, miserable, and powerless.”
―
Masha Gessen, The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin
“But
neither money nor machines can create. They shuttle tokens of energy, but they
do not transform. A civilization based on them puts people out of touch with
their creative powers.”
―
Lewis Hyde, Alcohol and Poetry: John Berryman and the Booze Talking
“Man
is, by nature, a slave of numbers; by nurture, a slave of slaves.”
―
Khayri R.R. Woulfe
“It's
good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to
check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that
money can't buy.”
―
George Lorimer
“Japanese
people today think of money, just money: Where is our national spirit today?
The Jieitai must be the soul of Japan. … The nation has no spiritual
foundation. That is why you don’t agree with me. You will just be American
mercenaries. There you are in your tiny world. You do nothing for Japan. … I
salute the Emperor. Long live the emperor!”
―
Yukio Mishima
“We're
all to driven by materialism. Obsessed with success. With money. With trying to
impress people who'll never be impressed.”
―
Sophie Kinsella, Shopaholic Ties the Knot
“You
don't have to be good at something to be liked.”
―
Stephen Richards
“Stand
out from the crowd, be yourself.”
―
Stephen Richards
“Exhaust
your worries and they will soon leave you.”
―
Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
“A
thought is a Cosmic Order waiting to happen.”
―
Stephen Richards
“Inaction
creates nothing. Action creates success.”
―
Stephen Richards
“Always
have an air of expectancy.”
―
Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
“If
we ask, we should also be prepared to give.”
―
Stephen Richards
“Poverty:
a temporary financial low, curable by money.”
―
Stephen Richards
“If
you were offered the chance to live your own life again, would you seize the
opportunity? The only real philosophical answer is automatically
self-contradictory: 'Only if I did not know that I was doing so.' To go through
the entire experience once more would be banal and Sisyphean—even if it did
build muscle—whereas to wish to be young again and to have the benefit of one's
learned and acquired existence is not at all to wish for a repeat performance,
or a Groundhog Day. And the mind ought to, but cannot, set some limits to
wish-thinking. All right, same me but with more money, an even sturdier penis,
slightly different parents, a briefer latency period… the thing is absurd. I
seriously would like to know what it was to be a woman, but like blind Tiresias
would also want the option of re-metamorphosing if I wished. How terrible it is
that we have so many more desires than opportunities.”
―
Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
“We
Slovenians are even better misers than you Scottish. You know how Scotland
began? One of us Slovenians was spending too much money, so we put him on a
boat and he landed in Scotland.”
―
Slavoj Žižek
“Gold
is the corpse of value...”
―
Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
“You
tap in to this oneness and become part of the universe as a whole.”
―
Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
“For
nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its
thumbs has rolled up its sleeves. We will keep our sleeves rolled up. We had to
struggle with the old enemies of peace--business and financial monopoly,
speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war
profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as
a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized
money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.”
―
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Though
I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not money, I am become
as a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of
prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have
all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not money, I am nothing.
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to
be burned, and have not money, it profiteth me nothing. Money suffereth long,
and is kind; money envieth not; money vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
doth not behave unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh
no evil; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all
things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. . . . And
now abideth faith, hope, money, these three; but the greatest of these is
money.
I
Corinthians xiii (adapted) ”
―
George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying
