— George Eliot"One must be poor to know the luxury of giving."
Money Quotes
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— George Bernard Shaw"Gambling promises the poor what Property performs for the rich."
— Francis Bacon"Money is like muck, not good except it be spread."
— Erich Fromm"Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much."
— Dolly Parton"You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on."
— Desmond Tutu"Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that."
— Demi Lovato"I want to get to the point where one day I don't have to have anything but a rug and a microphone stand on stage and still be able to sell out places like Madison Square Garden, like Bruce Springsteen does."
— Clint Eastwood"If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster."
— Chief Joseph"We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy."
— Charles Caleb Colton"The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing."
— Charles Caleb Colton"None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation."
— Charles Caleb Colton"If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth but, if poor, it is not quite so easy to conceal our poverty. We shall find it is less difficult to hide a thousand guineas, than one hole in our coat."
— Calvin Coolidge"Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character."
— Bill Gates"If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone."
— Benjamin Franklin"If you'd know the value of money, go and borrow some."
— Barbara Ehrenreich"Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest."
— Barbara Ehrenreich"Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene."
— Arthur Schopenhauer"Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money."
— Anatole France"In every well-governed state, wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing."
— Anatole France"… the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."