"Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat.– Found the one gift of which fortune bereft us, Lost all others she sets us devote; They with the gold to give doled him our silver, So much was theirs who so little allowed."

"It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver."

"First of all the Georgian Silver goes, and then all that nice furniture that used to be in the salon. Then the Canalettos go."

"As I sat at the Café I said to myself, They may talk as they please about what they call pelf, They may sneer as they like about eating and drinking, But help it I cannot, I cannot help thinking How pleasant it is to have money, heigh-ho! How pleasant it is to have money!"

"Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody."

"I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow who used to say, "Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves.""

"Endless money forms the sinews of war"

"To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst."

"I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money. Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors."

"So pleasant it is to have money, heigh-ho! So pleasant it is to have money."

"The way to resumption is to resume."

"Money is a symbol of what others in your society owe you, or your claim on particular amounts of the society's resources."

"To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it."

"Despising money is like toppling a king off his throne."

"Make ducks and drakes with shillings."

"L’intérêt d’argent est la grande épreuve des petits caractères, mais ce n’est encore que la plus petite pour les caractères distingués."

"The purified righteous man has become a coin of the Lord, and has the impress of his King stamped upon him."

"No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility."

"We must not only guard against the possession of money, but also must expel from our souls the desire for it. For we should not so much avoid the results of covetousness, as cut off by the roots all disposition towards it. For it will do no good not to possess money, if there exists in us the desire for getting it."

"Covetousness ... chooses to love and care for images stamped on gold instead of God."

"It is possible that those who are in no way pressed down with the weight of money may be condemned with the covetous in disposition and intent. For it was the opportunity of possessing which was wanting in their case, and not the will for it."

"Money, which is of very uncertain value, and sometimes has no value at all and even less."

"It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money."

"THIS IS YOUR GOD"

"If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor — poor in happiness, poor in all that makes life worth living."

"Money…is the symbol of duty, it is the sacrament of having done for mankind that which mankind wanted. Mankind may not be a very good judge, but there is no better."

"Still amorous, and fond, and billing, Like Philip and Mary on a shilling."

"How beauteous are rouleaus! how charming chests Containing ingots, bags of dollars, coins (Not of old victors, all whose heads and crests Weigh not the thin ore where their visage shines, But) of fine unclipt gold, where dully rests Some likeness, which the glittering cirque confines, Of modern, reigning, sterling, stupid stamp;— Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp."

"Money is the source of the greatest vice, and that nation which is most rich, is most wicked."

"And who can suffer injury by just taxation, impartial laws and the application of the Jeffersonian doctrine of equal rights to all and special privileges to none? Only those whose accumulations are stained with dishonesty and whose immoral methods have given them a distorted view of business, society and government. Accumulating by conscious frauds more money than they can use upon themselves, wisely distribute or safely leave to their children, these denounce as public enemies all who question their methods or throw a light upon their crimes."

"Penny wise, pound foolish."

"A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end."

"Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away."

"To make money honestly is to preach the gospel."

"If money is, as it is often posited, the root of all evil, then where does that leave greed? Let's do the math: Greed takes up most of your time and most of your money, so therefore greed = time x money. And, as we all know, time = money. Ergo, greed = money x money. So, if money is the square root of all evil, then we are forced to conclude that greed is evil as well, perhaps even more so, in that it forced us to do math. But when does the desire to simply possess something turn into unchecked greed? That's easy: when the things that you possess start possessing you."

"Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex. You thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did."

"I look at Paris Hilton, think about her parents' fortune and her grandparents' fortune. She thought she had it all together. A whole lot of people think that, that when you got money you can do anything you want to do. But I want to tell you there are some things money can't do for you; Money can buy you a house, but can't buy you a home; Money can buy you food to put on your table, but can't buy an appetite; Money can buy you one of the most finest matresses in the world, but can't buy you sleep."

"One of the wisest things anybody ever said to me was that if all you ever care about is money, money is all that will ever care for you."

"Money is the currency of the world, but it rarely is our currency."

"Money is like muck (manure), not good except it be spread."

"If you would know what the Lord God thinks of money, you have only to look at those to whom He gives it."

"Money is the devil's dung."

"The accuser of sins by my side doth stand, And he holds my money bag in his hand; For my worldly things God makes him pay; And he'd pay for more, if to him I would pray."

"We could never imagine what a strange disproportion a few or a great many pieces of money make between men, if we did not see it every day with our own eyes."

"Money well managed deserves, indeed, the apotheosis to which she was raised by her Latin adorers; she is Diva Moneta — a goddess."

"The greediness of gain is the only principle on which a stranger can be induced to furnish a stranger."

"Mr. Butler urged the same idea: adding that money was power; and that the States ought to have weight in the government in proportion to their wealth."

"L'argent est un bon serviteur, mais un méchant maître."