Proverbs and quotes about money, money, money, economy and capitalism.
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People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!Greta Thunberg
Perhaps if the churches had had the courage to lay their emphasis where Christ laid it, we might not have come to this frame of mind in which it is assumed that the value of all work, and the value of all people, is to be assessed in terms of economics.Dorothy L. Sayers
Source: Striding Folly
Public Art, defined as "art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money."Dave Barry
Sleep on a bed of silver and dream of gold.
The bee that makes the honey doesn't stand around the hive, and the man who makes the money has to worry, work, and strive.
The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.Theodore White
The foolish slogans of a rich man often pass for words of wisdom by the fools around him.
The free market should not include the right to pollute our environment.George S. McGovern
The more you have, the more you want.
The palace leads to fame, the market to fortune, and loneliness to wisdom.
The real minimum wage is zero.Thomas Sowell
The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.Frank Hubbard
The stars are far brighterJ.R.R. Tolkien
Than gems without measure
The moon is far whiter
Than silver in treasure:
The fire is more shining
On hearth in the glooming,
Than gold won by mining,
So why go a-roaming?
O! Tra-la-la-lally
Come back to the valley.
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 19 - The Last Stage
Part of a song by the elves.
There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.Mahatma Gandhi
There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.Robert Graves
Time is money.Time should not be wasted because it has value.
To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity.Stephen Hawking
When the Spaniard sings he is either stupid or without money.
Who needs wealth when you can make a woman laugh.(unknown author)
Source: Game of Thrones
Quoted: Tyrion Lannister
You are all striving for money. What do you want it for?Elizabeth Gaskell
Source: North and South
You can't take it with you when you die.A reminder that some things are not so valuable as you sometimes think.
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