Money and Wealth

Money will not make you happy, and happy will not make you money.

I started out with nothing and I've still got most of it left.

When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

When a man tells you he got rich by hard work, ask him whose.

Avarice, the spur of industry.

Rabbit realized the world was not solid and benign, it was a shabby set of temporaryarrangements rigged up for the time being, all for the sake of the money. You just passedthrough, and they milked you for what youwere worth, mostly when you were young andgullible.

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country’s pride, When once destroy’d, can never be supplied.

Money … is none of the wheels of trade: it is the oil which renders the motion of the wheels more smooth and easy.

It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not easy to ask your mistress face to face, like money for instance.

The richest monarch in the Christian world; The sun in my own dominions never sets. 3

 

Blood's not thicker than money.

Marcela loved me during fifteen months and three thousand dollars; nothing more.

Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to a man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in his pocket, he is half consoled, even though he cannot spend it.

Usura slayeth the child in the wombIt stayeth the young man’s courtingIt hath brought palsey to bed, lyeth between the young bride and her bridegroom CONTRA NATURAM

What is robbing a bank compared with founding a bank?

Si possis recte, si non, quocumque modo rem.

[ On looking at an expensive shop :] How many things I can do without!

Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat,

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

I am dying, as I have lived, beyond my means.

[ Hammer, played by Groucho Marx, speaking :] Three years ago I came to Florida without a nickel in my pocket. And now I’ve got a nickel in my pocket.

over a high income.

In all things connected with money I have had a luck so extraordinary that sometimes it has made me almost afraid. I remember havingread somewhere, in some strange book, that when the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.