Money Quotes About Wealth & Priorities – Page 5 | GloryQuotes

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.

W. Somerset Maugham

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.

Robert Mapplethorpe

The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.

Brendan Behan

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

Benjamin Franklin

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.

Margaret Thatcher

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

Clare Boothe Luce

A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.

Charles Schumer

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

Plutarch

Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it?

Richard M. Daley

Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.

Moshe Dayan

The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.

Ann Landers

My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner.

Poppy Z. Brite

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

Herodotus

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

Trillions of dollars every day are being exchanged around the world in all of the financial markets.

Kenneth Lay

I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

Not one Republican president has balanced the budget in 34 years. You can not trust Republicans with your money.

Howard Dean

What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.

Sitting Bull

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

We have the best government that money can buy.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Alexander Smith

When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money.

Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.

Edward Young

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.

Jules Renard

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

Money is the great tool through whose means labor and skill become universally co-operative.

Leland Stanford

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

Henry Ellis

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?

Princess Diana

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy.

The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

Wendell Phillips

I like the idea of giving workers control and putting their money into their personal accounts.

Virginia Foxx

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Andrew Carnegie

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

Joseph Campbell

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Titus Maccius Plautus

If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?

Davy Crockett

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

C. Northcote Parkinson