Friday, October 19, 2012

Amazing Quotes 18: Money!

Money doesn't look complicated. It is a tool to buy something. It is a tool to count your ability to acquire new property. Why so many people are so crazy about it? Maybe these masters could help. One of them even have his face printed on money!

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
-- Benjamin Franklin

The lack of money is the root of all evil.
-- Mark Twain

Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?
-- Robert Green Ingersoll, "Some Mistakes of Moses" (1879)

While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.”
-- Groucho Marx

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness and ugliness.
-- George Bernard Shaw 

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”
-- Dorothy Parker

Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.”
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

Friendship and money: oil and water.
-- Mario Puzo

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