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

-Allen,Woody pseudonym of  Allen Stewart Konigsberg
  Without Feathers,'Early Essays'.

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
  Macuna|¤  ma (O Hero¤  i sem nenhum cara¤  ter) (Macunaima, 1984), ch.9.

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
?c.900  The Rune Poem, l.1^2.

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
c.1890  'The Orange Toast', traditional Protestant Irish.

   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
  L'Alouette ( The Lark).

   She had very nice feet and plenty of money.

-Ashford, Daisy Mary Margaret
  TheYoung Visiters, or Mr Salteena's Plan, ch.12.

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 Dyer's Hand, foreword.

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

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.15,'Of Seditions and Troubles'.

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

-Balcon, Michael
Quoted in David Puttnam Michael Balcon: The Pursuit of British Cinema (1984), preface.

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
  'Black Boy Looks at the White Boy', in Esquire, May.

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

-Jones
  'Tokenism', in Kulchur, spring issue.

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
  Commenting on Sir Samuel Hoare's appointment as Foreign Secretary.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

-Behan, Brendan Francis
  The Rover, pt.2, act 3, sc.1.

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)
  Duveen, ch.1.  Joseph Duveen was a highly successful US art dealer.

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
  In the NewYork Herald,19  Aug.

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
  Voluntary  Action, ch.12.

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

-Bible (Old Testament)
Ecclesiastes10:19.

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)
Isaiah 55:1^2.

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

-Bible (Apocrypha)
Tobit 5:18.

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

-Bible (NewTestament)
  Timothy 6:10.