- Neither a borrower nor a lender be:
- For loan oft loses both itself and friend.
Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he'd take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, Maxims for Revolutionists
It's a sweet little bird, but it gets through a terrible amount of money. You wouldn't believe how much it costs a man when he's got a little song-bird like you!
You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it.
There is nothing namable but that some men will undertake to do it for pay.
Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling and havoc-wreaking.
Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal.
In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.
Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.
- If thou art rich, thou 'rt poor;
- For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows,
- Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey,
- And death unloads thee.
Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish ... know not what is the real happiness of life: just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone estimate the value of a clear and serene sky.
It seems impossible for a man to learn the value of money without first having to learn to waste it.
So you think that money is the root of all evil? Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?
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