Proverbs and quotes about money, money, money, economy and capitalism.
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'I assure you, my good friend, I have more money than I can ever need; far more than a man at my age can ever live to spend,' said Mr. Pickwick.Charles Dickens
'No man knows how much he can spend, till he tries,' observed Mr. Weller.
Source: The Pickwick Papers
A drop of wisdom is better than a sea of gold.
A fool and his money are soon parted.A foolish person usually spends money without thinking.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.Jane Austen
Source: Mansfield Park
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.W.C. Fields
All that glitters is not gold.You can be deceived by appearances. What looks good on the outside may actually be bad.
An ant may work its heart out, but it can't make money.
An empty purse frightens away friends.If you get poor, your 'friends' will disappear.
As soon as you take money for playing sport, it isn't sport, it's work.Avery Brundage
Ashes or diamonds, foe or friend, we're all equal in the end.Roger Waters
Because, my dear, beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men.Anne Brontë
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
But I'm tired of this bustle. Everybody rushing over everybody, in their hurry to get rich.Elizabeth Gaskell
Source: North and South
Butterflies store no money.
Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man; Communism is the exact opposite.(unknown author)
Coffee leads men to trifle away their time, scald their chops, and spend their money, all for a little base, black, thick, nasty, bitter, stinking nauseous puddle water.(unknown author)
Disease is the biggest money maker in our economy.John H. Tobe
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.John Clapham
Every man has his price.
Far over the misty mountains coldJ.R.R. Tolkien
To dungeons deep and caverns old
We must away ere break of day
To seek the pale enchanted gold.
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 1 - An Unexpected Party
Part of a song by the dwarves
Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental costs are being excluded from the calculations.Prince Charles
Gold is tested by fire, man by gold.
Great economic success doesn't produce national happiness. It produces Republicans and Switzerland.Bill Bryson
Source: The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island
Growing your own tomatoes is the best way to devote three months of your life to saving $2.17(unknown author)
He who pays the piper calls the tune.The person who pays for something can decide how the money is spent.
Health is better than wealth.It's better to be in good health than to be rich.
Home grown tomatoes, home grown tomatoes What would life be like without homegrown tomatoes? Only two things that money can't buy. That's true love and home grown tomatoes.John Denver
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.Mae West
If a flea had money, it would buy its own dog.
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Lord of the Rings
Quoted: Thorin
If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.Henry Fielding
In the age of acorns, before the times of Ceres, a single barley-corn had been of more value to mankind than all the diamonds of the mines of India.Henry Brooke
It costs to be stupid. The stupider you are, the more it costs.Sherrill Brown
Just as we have the separation of church and state, we need the separation of state and big capital.Minkukel
Lousy with money.Abundantly supplied with money.
Love, grief, and money cannot be kept secret.
MoneyRoger Waters
So they say
Is the root of all evil today
Source: Pink Floyd lyrics
Money begets money, and fleas beget fleas.
Money begets money.It's easier to make money when you have money.
Money buys cherries.
Money doesn't grow on trees.It's not easy to make money.
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.Woody Allen
Money is the most universal and most efficient system of mutual trust ever devised.Yuval Noah Harari
Source: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Money is the root of all evil.
Money spent on brain is never spent in vain.
No bees, no honey; no work, no money.
No money, no honey.(unknown author)
Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.Oscar Wilde
Of course we're doing it for the money. We've always done it for the money.Mick Jagger
Penny wise, pound foolish.This refers to someone who is careful about spending small amounts of money, but not careful about spending large amounts.
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