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Meaningful Quotes about Money
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The love of money is the root of all evil.—1
Timothy 6:10.
Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop
pennies, and get dollars in return.—H.W. Shaw.
Money is the worst currency that ever grew among
mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this
teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
Sophocles
Hundreds would never have known want if they had
not first known waste.—Spurgeon.
Economy is half the battle of life; it is not so hard to earn money as
to spend it well.—Spurgeon.
Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.—Cowley.
It is surely very narrow policy that supposes
money to be the chief good.—Johnson.
Poverty is in want of much, but avarice of everything.—Publius Syrus.
No man is rich whose expenditures exceed his
means; and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.—Haliburton.
There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an
avaricious man—the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the
other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.—Fielding.
O cursed lust of gold: when for thy sake
The fool throws up his interest in both worlds,
First starved in this, then damn'd in that to come.
—Blair.
Many have been ruined by their fortunes; many have escaped ruin by the
want of fortune. To obtain it, the great have become little, and the
little great.—Zimmermann.
Make all you can, save all you can, give all you
can.—Wesley.
What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How
tenderly we look at her faults if she is a relative; what a kind,
good-natured old creature we find her!—Thackeray.
Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its
nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants.
Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want,
it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of
the wise man, rely upon it: "Better is little with the fear of the Lord,
than great treasure, and trouble therewith."—Franklin.
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.—Swift.
Money is a good servant, but a dangerous master.—Bouhours. |
