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 ThunbergPerhaps 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. SayersSource: Striding Folly
Public Art, defined as "art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money."
Dave BarryShe said "We don't need money when we've got us
Because power, it'll make any man weak I know"
The Black Heart ProcessionBecause power, it'll make any man weak I know"
Source: Even Thieves Couldn't Lie
Sleep on a bed of silver and dream of gold.
That's as good as money, sir. Those are I.O.U.s.
Source: Movie: Dumb & DumberQuoted: Lloyd Christmas
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 WhiteThe 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. McGovernThe 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 SowellThe safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.
Frank HubbardThe stars are far brighter
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.
J.R.R. TolkienThan 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 GandhiThere's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.
Robert GravesTime 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 ChestertonWe are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity.
Stephen HawkingWhen 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 GaskellSource: 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.