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  Money Quotes - Money is like manure   “Without desires and dreams, your thoughts do not matter and you can think whatever you want to.” ― Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free   “Money is like a child—rarely unaccompanied. When it disappears, look to those who were supposed to be keeping an eye on it while you were at the grocery store. You might also look for someone who has a lot of extra children sitting around, with long, suspicious explanations for how they got there.” ― Lemony Snicket   “Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.” ― Thornton Wilder, The Matchmaker   “Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency.” ― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex ...

  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...

  Money Quotes - While others were dreaming about it - I was getting it done   “Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.” ― Robert J. McCracken   “Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things.” ― Spinoza   “For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for leisure and peace of mind, money for trips to Italy. Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O lord, give me money, only money.” ― George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying   “He wondered about the people in houses like those. They would be, f...

  Money Quotes - Having money isn't everything, not having it is   “If money is the bond binding me to human life, binding society to me, connecting me with nature and man, is not money the bond of all bonds? Can it not dissolve and bind all ties? Is it not, therefore, also the universal agent of separation?” ― Karl Marx, Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844   “I would rather carry around a plastic bag with five thousand Euro inside, than carry around a Louis Vuitton/Gucci/Prada bag with only one hundred Euro inside!” ― C. JoyBell C.   “Nin knew how much humans loved money, riches, and material things—though he never really could understand why. The more technologically advanced the human species got, the more isolated they seemed to become, at the same time. It was alarming, how humans could spend entire lifetimes engaged in all kinds of activities, without getting any closer to knowing who they really were, inside.” ― Jess C Scott, The Oth...

  Money Quotes - The quickest way to double your money   “Divorce lawyers stoke anger and fear in their clients, knowing that as long as the conflicts remain unresolved the revenue stream will keep flowing.” ― Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot   “You piss me off you Salmon... You're too expensive in restaurants.” ― Eddie Izzard   “People who say that money can't buy happiness just don't know where to shop.” ― Kathy Lette   “money has no essence. It's not "really" anything; therefore, its nature has always been and presumably always will be a matter of political conten­tion.” ― David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years   “I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.” ― S. E. Hinton   “An educated woman is seen as a human being with a vagina. An uneducated woman is seen as a vagina with a human bein...

  Money Quotes - Money follows art   “What he realised, and more clearly as time went on, was that money-worship has been elevated into a religion. Perhaps it is the only real religion-the only felt religion-that is left to us. Money is what God used to be. Good and evil have no meaning any longer except failure and success. Hence the profoundly significant phrase, to make good. The decalogue has been reduced to two commandments. One for the employers-the elect, the money priesthood as it were- 'Thou shalt make money'; the other for the employed- the slaves and underlings'- 'Thou shalt not lose thy job.' It was about this time that he came across The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists and read about the starving carpenter who pawns everything but sticks to his aspidistra. The aspidistra became a sort of symbol for Gordon after that. The aspidistra, the flower of England! It ought to be on our coat of arms instead of the lion and the unicorn. There will be no revolut...