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Early in life,Duveen†noticed that Europe had plenty of art and America had plenty of money, and his entire astonishing career was the product of that simple observation.

—Behrman, S(amuel) N(athaniel)

Everybody in America is so money-hungry. It's like a rat race and even when you win you're still a freaking rat.

—Tyson, Mike

Aphorismsgive you more for your time and money than any other literary form.Only the poem comes near to it, but then most good poems either start off from an aphorism orarrive at one† Aphorisms and epigrams are the corner-stones of literaryart.

—Dudek, Louis

As soon as anyart is pursued with a view to money, then farewell, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, all hope of genuine good work.

—Butler, Samuel

The real pitch lake is simply about two hundred asphalt tennis courts, in very bad condition, set in the midst of somegently undulating greenmeadows.Iam inclined to ask for my money back.

—Huxley, Aldous Leonard

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.

—Zatopek, Emil

It is well known that, when two or three authors meet, theyat once start talking about moneyölike everyone else.

—Pritchett, Sir V(ictor) S(awdon)

I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance†was a neat idea.

—North, Oliver

When women breached the power structure in the 1980s†two economies finally merged. Beauty was no longer just a symbolic form of currency: it literally became money.

—Wolf, Naomi

To blame someone like Northcliffe for making money in the quickest way is like blaming a skunk for stinking.

—Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair

Britain has lived for too long on borrowed time, borrowed money, and even borrowed ideas.

—Baron

   What the federal government does basically is borrow money from people and mail it to people.

—Will, George

Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them.

—Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.

—Ward, Artemus pseudonym of  Charles Farrar Browne

To the Glorious,Pious, and Immortal Memory of King William theThird,Prince of Orange, who delivered us from Popes and Popery, Knaves and Knavery, Slaves and Slavery, Brass Money, and Wooden Shoes, and He that Will Not Take thisToast May He Be Damn'd,Cramm'd, and Jamm'd Down the Great Gun of Athlone, and the Gun Fired in the Pope's Belly, and the Pope Fired in the Devil's Belly, and the Devil Fired into Hell, and the Door Lock'd, and the Key Forever in the Pocket of a Stout Orangeman. And Here's a Fart for the Bishop of Cork!

—Anonymous

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

—Williams,TennesseeThomas Lanier

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

—Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith)

   The opening-night audience is mostly friends of the cast and backers of the show, and they cometo applaud their money.

—Hirschfeld, Al

They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn't name its price.

—Greene, (Henry) Graham

A silk suit, which cost memuchmoney, and Ipray God to make me able to pay for it.

—Pepys, Samuel

The desire to make money is a symptom of all sorts of emotional disturbancesögreed is only one of them.

—van deWetering,Janwillem

The demi-monde does not represent the crowd of courtesans, but the class of declassed women† It is divided from that of honest women by public scandal, and divided from that of the courtesans by money.

—Dumas, Alexandre, fils

   I don't like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves.

—Louis,Joe pseudonym of  Joseph Louis Barrow

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else.But the fact is, you got to give 'em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.

—Walker, Alice Malsenior

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

—Leacock, Stephen Butler

No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.

—Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson

What is the main problem of the actor? It is to keep the audience awake, and not let them go to sleep, then wake up and go home feeling they've wasted their money.

—Olivier, Laurence Kerr, Baron

At last America is in my view; a dreary waste of white barren sand, and melancholy, nodding pines. In the course of many miles, no cheerful cottage has blest my eyes. All seems dreary, savage and desert; and was it for this such sums of money, such streams of British blood have been lavished away? Oh, thou dear land, how dearly hast thou purchased this habitation for bears and wolves. Dearly has it been purchased, and at a price far dearer still it will be kept. My heart dies within me, while I view it.

—Schaw,Janet   b.c.1730

Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain. Fancy giving money to the Government! Nobody will see the stuff again.

—Herbert, SirA(lan) P(atrick)

But I knaw'd a Quaa«  ker feller as often 'as towd ma this: 'Doa«  nt thou marry for munny, but goa«   wheer munny is!'

—Tennyson

Just what God would do if he had the money.

—Woollcott, Alexander Humphreys

The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing to dowith capitalism.Thisimpulse exists among waiters, physicians, coachmen, artists, prostitutes, dishonest officials, soldiers, nobles, crusaders, gamblers, and beggars.One may say that it has been common to all sorts and conditions of men at all times and in all cultures of the earth, wherever the objective possibility of it is or has been given.

—Weber, Max

Be not greedy to add money to money: but let it be as refuse in respect of our child.

—Bible (Apocrypha)

The price was quite reasonable. It just happened to be a lot of money.

—Merrin, Edward H

  'Tis ashard tobe a good fellow, a good friend, and a lover of women, as 'tistobe agood fellow, agood friend, and a lover of money.

—Wycherley,William

Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. 104

—Bible (Old Testament)

The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.

—Butler, Samuel

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat. They took some honey, and plenty of money, Wrapped up in a five-pound note. The Owl looked up to the Stars above And sang to a small guitar, 'Oh lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love, What a beautiful Pussy you are'.

—Lear, Edward

No one ever complains if a great artist says that he was driven to create a masterpiece by a hunger for recognition and money.But a scientist? Well, he ismeant to be disinterested, pure, his ambition merely to descry the cement of the universe. He isn't meant to use it to start laying his own patio.

—Self,Will

It's what God would have done if he'd had the money.

—Kaufman, George S(imon)

If you can actually count your money, then you are not really a rich man.

—Getty,Jean Paul

   There are few ways in which a man can be so innocently employed than in getting money.

—Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson

In the absence of money, we'll have to make do with talent.

—Balcon, Michael

Gamp would certainly have drunk its little shoes right off its feet, as with our precious boy he did, and arterwards send the child a errand to sell his wooden leg for any money it 'ud fetch as matches in the rough, and bring it home in liquor.

—Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam

ATV licence is a licence to print money.

—Thomson, Roy Herbert, 1st BaronThomson of Fleet

He has all the qualities that go to the making of a leader of the Conservative Party. He is not stupid, but he is very dull. He is not eloquent, but he talks well. He is not honest, politically, but he is most evangelical.He has a Beckett little money, but not much. He always conforms to the party policy.

—Baron

No one in this world, so far as I knowöand I have searched the record for years, and employed agents to help meöhas ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

—Mencken, H(enry) L(ouis)

For the love of money is the root of all evil.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money.

—Jonson, Ben

You could be a great musician, an innovative and important artist, but nobodycared if youdidn't makethe white people who were in control some money.

—Davis, Miles Dewey, III

What is to prevent a daily newspaper from being made the greatest organ of social life? Books have had their dayöthe theatres have had their dayöthe temple of religion has had its day. A newspaper can be made to take the lead of all these in the great movements of human thought and of human civilisation. A newspaper can send more souls to Heaven, and save more from Hell, than all the churches or chapels in New Yorköbesides making money at the same time.

—Bennett,James Gordon, Snr

It ain't often that a man's reputashun outlasts his munny.

—Billings,Josh pseudonym of  Henry Wheeler Shaw

There's almost as many different sorts of marriage as there's different sorts of people. There's the young things that marry for love, not knowing what they're doing, and the old things that marry for moneyand comfort and companionship. There's the people that marry for children. There's the people that don't intend to have children and that aren't fit to have them. There's the peoplethat marry becausethey're so much run after by the other sex that they have to put a stop to it somehow. There's the people that want to trya new experience, and the people that want to have done with experiences.

—Shaw, George Bernard

Women Whose Lives Are Food, Men Whose Lives Are Money.

—Myles na Gopaleen

Awoman must have moneyand a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

—Woolf, (Adeline) Virginia ne¤  e Stephen

   To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.

—Mitford, Mary Russell

A feast ismade for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.

—Bible (Old Testament)

   We all know how the size of sums of money appears to vary in a remarkable wayaccording as they are being paid in or paid out.

—Huxley, SirJulian Sorell

For I don't care too much for money, For money can't buy me love.

—Paul

The era of free speech is closing down. The freedom of the press in Britain was always something of a fake, because in the last resort, money controls opinion; still, so long asthe legal right tosay what you like exists, there are always loopholes for an unorthodox writer.

—Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair

Money couldn't buy friends but you got a better class of enemy.

—Milligan, Spike

J'avoue bien que l'argent ne fait pas le bonheur; mais il faut avouer aussi qu'il le facilite beaucoup. I will admit that money does not bring happiness, but it must also be admitted that it facilitates much. 484

—Laclos, Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de

Pecunia non olet. Money does not smell.

—Vespasian full name Titus FlaviusVespasianus

There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.

—Smith, Adam

For money has a power above The stars and fate, to manage love.

—Butler, Samuel

Entre nosotros el dinero ha hecho desaparecer ma¤  s preocupaciones de familia que en las viejas sociedades europeas. En e¤  stas hay lo que llaman aristocracia de dinero, que jama¤  s alcanza con su poder†a hacer olvidar enteramente la oscuridad de la cuna, al paso que en Chile†todo va cediendo su puesto a la riqueza. Among us, money has dissolved more worries than among ancient European societies. The latter have what they call the moneyed aristocracy, which, despite all its power, never gets to forget its humble origins; on the other hand, in Chile everything yields to wealth.

—Blest Gana, Alberto

Feoh byth frofur fira gehwylcum Sceal theah manna gehwylc miclun hyt d×lan. Money is a comfort to each man, But everyone should nevertheless give it away freely.

—Anonymous

Money is a kind of poetry.

—Stevens,Wallace

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

—Allen,Woody pseudonym of  Allen Stewart Konigsberg

Money is how we keep the score in motor racing nowadays.

—Chapman, (Anthony) Colin Bruce

Rising prices or wages do not cause inflation; they only report it. They represent an essential form of economic speech, sincemoney isjust another form of information.

—Wriston,Walter Bigelow

Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.

—Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans

For where money is the standard of everything, many vain, superfluous trades are bound to be carried on simply to satisfy luxuryand licentiousness.

—More, SirThomas

Money, wife, is the true fuller's earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out.

—Gay,John

The Film Industry is the American Monarchy: it is strict entailed succession and Horatio Alger in one. Except for the money manipulators and speculators on the top, it is a society built onwork, achievement, and fealty tothose in power.

—Mamet, David Alan

Gwine to run all night, Gwine to run all day, I'll bet my money on de bob-tail nag, Somebody bet on de bay.

—Foster, Stephen Collins

Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.

—James, Henry

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

—Behan, Brendan Francis

Nothing but Money, Is sweeter than Honey.

—Franklin, Benjamin

He that purchases a manor will think to have an exact survey of the land, but who thinks of taking so exact a survey of his conscience, how that money was got that purchased that manor? We call that a man's means, which he hath; but that is truly his means, what way he came by it.

—Donne,John

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world: and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

—Shaw, George Bernard

Money, itturnedout, was exactly likesex, youthought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

—Baldwin,James Arthur

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard, and money was not scarce?

—Emerson, RalphWaldo

No dog can go as fast as the money you bet on him. Flanagan theirheads, nomatterhowcharming a blufftheymay put up.

—Flanagan, Bud stage name of Robert Winthrop

You can't put off being young until you retire, And however you bank your screw, the money you save Won't in the end buy you more than a shave.

—Larkin, Philip Arthur

Today musicians listen to see who makes the most money on a style, and then they set to copying him. And they don't copy the ones that are beautiful, creative and good.

—Mingus, Charles

   Much discussion of money involves a heavy overlay of priestly incantation.

—Galbraith,John Kenneth

We've dominated sports and we've dominated entertainment, but our problem has been we've never been able to dominate money.We still don't own our share of business, and it's killing us. It's killing our communities.

—Johnson, Earvin ('Magic')

   New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself. To thinkof 'living'there was to reduce the miraculous to the mundane; one does not 'live'at Xanadu.

—Didion,Joan

   She had very nice feet and plenty of money.

—Ashford, Daisy Mary Margaret

If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.

—Graves, Robert von Ranke

And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame; And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame, But each for the joy of working, and each, in his separate star, Shall draw theThing ashesees It for the God of Things as They are!

—Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard

There is nothing in Socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

—Durant,WilliamJames

Quand une fois on a tourne¤   l'enthousiasme en ridicule, on a tout de¤  fait, excepte¤   l'argent et le pouvoir. Once we have made enthusiasm ridiculous, there is nothing left but money and power.

—Stae«  l, Germaine Necker, Baronne de

Thereal priceofeverything, whateverything reallycosts to themanwho wants to acquire it, isthetoil and trouble of acquiring it. Labour was the first price, the original purchase money that was paid for all things.

—Smith, Adam

Os guerreiros de ca¤   na‹  o buscam mavo¤  rticas damas para o enlace epitala"  mico; mas antes as preferem do¤  ceis e facilmente troca¤ v eis por pequeninas e vola¤  teis folhas de papel a que o vulgo chamara¤   dinheiroöo 'curriculum vitae'da Civiliza c° a‹  o. The warriors here do not seek out mettlesome women for epithalamic conjunction, but prefer them docile and willing to exchange with ease their favours for those small and deliquescent leaves of paper which the masses call moneyöthe curriculum vitae of Civilization.

—Andrade, Ma¤ r io de

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practising it.

—Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)

The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance money.

—Doyle, SirArthur Conan

One does not own to the possession of money in India.

—Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard

Christianity is really a man's religion: there's not much in it for women except docility, obedience, who-sweeps- the-room-as-for-thy-cause, downcast eyes and death in childbirth. For the men it's better: all power and money and fine robes, the burning of the hereticsöfun, fun, fun!öand the Inquisition fulminating from the pulpit.

—Weldon, Fay originally Franklin Birkinshaw

The power of money is a distinctly male power. Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice. In the hands of women, money stays literal, count it out, it buys what it is worth or less. In the hands of men, money buys women, sex, status, dignity, esteem, recognition, loyalty, all manner of possibility.

—Dworkin, Andrea

It gave me a great notion of the credit of our present government and administration, to find people press as eagerly to pay moneyas they would to receive it; and, at the same time, a due respect for that body of men who have found out so pleasing an expedient for carrying on the common cause, that they have turned a tax into a diversion.

—Stein, Gertrude

If the husband be a man with whom you have lived on a friendly footing before marriage,öif you did not come inonthewife'sside,öif youdid not sneak intothehouse in her train, but were an old friend in first habits of intimacy before their courtship was so much as thought on,ölook about you† Every long friendship, every old authentic intimacy, must be brought into their office to be new stamped with their currency, as a sovereign Prince calls in the good old money that was coined in some reign before he was born or thought of, to be new marked and minted with the stamp of his authority, before he will let it pass current in the world.

—Lamb, Charles

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

—Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Nothing has conduced more to shake that decent respect for the living symbol of thestatethat goes by the name of royalty than the ever-recurring rattle of the money box.

—Labouche'  re, Henry Du Pre¤

I have the most reliable friend that you can have in American politicsöready money.

—Gramm, Phil (William Philip)

Thereligionof money istoday the onlyonewhichhasno unbelievers. Gay

—Gautier,The¤  ophile

They were careless people,Tom and Daisyöthey smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

—Fitzgerald, F(rancis) Scott Key

'My boy,' he says,'always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.'

—Runyon, (Alfred) Damon

A billion here, a billion there. Pretty soon it runs into real money.

—Dirksen, Everett McKinley

Sex is like money; only too much is enough.

—Updike,John Hoyer

The Swiss are inspired hotel-keepers. Some centuries since, when thestranger strayed into one oftheir valleys, their simple forefathers would kill him and share out the little money he might have about him. Now they know better. They keep him alive and writing cheques.

—Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley ne¤  e Pierrepoint

   Dieu est avec tout le monde† Et, en fin de compte, il est toujours avec ceux qui ont beaucoup d'argent et de grosses arme¤  es. God is on everyone's side† And, in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.

—Anouilh,Jean

Il avait soixante et trois manie'  res d'en trouver toujours a' son besoin, dont la plus honorable et la plus commune e¤  tait par fa c° on de larcin furtivement fait. He had sixty-three ways to find the money when he needed it, the most honourable and most ordinary of which was to steal secretively.

—Rabelais, Fran c° ois

Sir,Ihavetwoverycogent reasonsfornot printing any list of subscribers;öone, that Ihave lost all thenames,öthe other, that I have spent all the money.

—Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson

I've had a tough time learning how to act like a Congressman. Today I accidentally spent some of my own money.

—Kennedy,Joseph P(atrick) II

The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.

—Beveridge,William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron

When somebody tells you it is not a money problem, they're talking about somebody else's money.

—Clinton, Bill (William)

Writing a best-seller with conscious intent to do so is, afterall, a state of mind that isnot without comparisonto the act of marrying for money only to discover that the absence of love is more onerous that anticipated.

—Mailer, Norman Kingsley

  Time is money.

—Franklin, Benjamin

Nervos belli, pecuniam infinitam. The sinews of war, unlimited money.

—Cicero full name MarcusTullius Cicero

Her voice is full of money.

—Fitzgerald, F(rancis) Scott Key

The consumer, so it is said, is the king†each is a voter who uses his money as votes to get the things done that he wants done.

—Samuelson, Paul Anthony

We're in the money, we're in the money We've got a lot of what it takes to get along.

—Dubin, Al

We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too!

—Hunt, G W

   What money is better bestowed than that of a school- boy's tip?

—Thackeray,William Makepeace

But it is pretty to see what money will do.

—Pepys, Samuel

A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.

—Jones

A wonderful timeöthe War: when money rolled in and blood rolled out.

—Hughes, (James Mercer) Langston

But Jesus, when you don't have any money the problem is food.When you have money, it's sex.When you have both it's health, you worryabout getting ruptured or something. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death.

—Donleavy,J(ames) P(atrick)

We don't know where that money came from and we don't know who had it and we don't know where it went.

—Reagan, Ronald Wilson

With the money I spent I could have elected my chauffeur.

—Kennedy,Joseph Patrick

The nation suspects that the regular ministerial majorities in Parliament are bought, and that the Crown hasmadea purchase oftheHousewiththemoneyofthe people. Hence the ready, tame and servile compliance to every royal verdict issued by Lord North† It is almost universally believed that this debt has been contracted in corrupting the representatives of the people.

—Whitbread, Samuel

Whatever the economic value of the domestic industry of women is, they do not get it. The women who do the most work get the least money, and the women who have the most money do the least work.

—Gilman and Charlotte Perkins Stetson

Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.

—Donleavy,J(ames) P(atrick)

I do not write for money or fame† One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensible to one's happiness to express.

—Moore, Marianne Craig

He remembered poor Julian and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, 'The very rich are different from you and me.'And somebody had said to Julian,'Yes, they have more money.' See Fitzgerald 325:3.

—Hemingway, Ernest Millar

   You pays your moneyand you takes your choice.

—Punch

That's the difference between us.You talk of art Mr Goldwyn, I think of money.

—Shaw, George Bernard