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    Money and Wealth: A Book of Quotations
    Money and Wealth: A Book of Quotations
    Money and Wealth: A Book of Quotations
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    Money and Wealth: A Book of Quotations

    By Peter Donahue

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    "Love lasteth long as the money endureth." "The money paid, the work delayed." "Gentlemen prefer bonds." Rich with hundreds of quotations on currency, greed, wealth, and poverty, this original anthology draws upon the Bible, proverbs, and observations by Confucius, Shakespeare, Benjamin Franklin, Oscar Wilde, Edith Wharton, Henry Ford, W. C. Fields, Woody Allen, Bob Dylan, Oprah Winfrey, and many others.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateSep 2, 2013
    ISBN9780486320434
    Money and Wealth: A Book of Quotations
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    Peter Donahue

    Peter Donahue is the author of the novels Clara and Merritt and Madison House, winner of the 2005 Langum Prize for American Historical Fiction, and the short story collection The Cornelius Arms. He is co-editor of the 2016 edition of the memoir Seven Years on the Pacific Slope and the anthologies Reading Seattle and Reading PortlandColumbia: The Magazine of Northwest History since 2005. He teaches at Wenatchee Valley College at Omak and lives in Winthrop, Washington.

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      Money and Wealth - Peter Donahue

      PART I

      ATTRIBUTED QUOTATIONS: BC TO THE PRESENT

      Money is life to us wretched mortals.

      Little to little added, if oft done, in small time makes a good possession.

      Hesiod (C. 700 BC), Greek poet

      Cursed be he above all others

      Who’s enslaved by love of money.

      Money takes the place of brothers,

      Money takes the place of parents,

      Money brings us war and slaughter.

      Anacreon (C. 582–485 BC), Greek poet

      Do not work to make money for money’s sake.

      Buddha (C. 563–483 BC), Indian spiritual leader

      Money can turn a lowly worm into a mighty dragon.

      Money in the hands of a bachelor is as good as gone.

      He who hasn’t a penny sees bargains everywhere.

      The gold does not belong to the miser, but the miser to the gold.

      The injury of prodigality leads to this, that he that will not economize will have to agonize.

      Confucius (551–479 BC), Chinese philosopher and teacher

      For money, you would sell your soul.

      You will see more ruined than saved by money ill gotten.

      Profit is sweet even if it comes from deception.

      Sophocles (C. 496–406 BC), Greek playwright

      Money is the wise man’s religion.

      Euripides (C. 484–406 BC), Greek playwright

      Wealth is a lot of things a man can do without.

      Socrates (C. 470–399 BC), Greek philosopher

      Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

      Plato (C. 427–347 BC), Greek philosopher

      Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest.

      Aristotle (384–322 BC), Greek philosopher

      No one gets rich quickly if he is honest.

      Riches cover a multitude of woes.

      Let him who weds wed character, not money.

      Menander (C. 342–292 BC), Greek playwright

      If thou wilt make a man happy, add not to his riches but take away from his desires.

      Epicurus (341–270 BC), Greek philosopher

      After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the miser was so hopping mad he hanged himself.

      Lucilius (C. 160–103 BC), Roman satirist

      Above all is he admired who is not influenced by money.

      There is no sanctuary so holy that money cannot profane it, no fortress so strong that money cannot take it by storm.

      Cicero (106–43 BC), Roman statesman, orator and writer

      When reason rules, money is a blessing.

      Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.

      Money does not sate Avarice, but stimulates it.

      Fortune is like glass—the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.

      Publilius Syrus (C. 100 BC), Latin poet and playwright

      Make money: make it honestly if possible; if not, make it by any means.

      A heart well-prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

      Though you strut proud of your money, yet fortune has not changed your birth.

      Horace (65–8 BC), Roman poet and satirist

      We feel public misfortunes just so far as they affect our private circumstances, and nothing of this nature appeals more directly to us than the loss of money.

      Livy (59 BC–AD 17), Roman historian

      When every man worships gold, all other reverence is done away.

      Propertius (C. 50–after 16 BC), Roman poet

      Money is now the prize. Wealth in its train brings honors, and brings friendships; he who’s poor is ever cast aside.

      Gold will buy the highest honors; and gold will purchase love.

      Ovid (43 BC–AD 18), Roman poet

      Not he who has little, but he who wishes more, is poor.

      A good mind possesses a kingdom; a great fortune is a great slavery.

      Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.

      Money is a greater torment in the possession, than it is in the pursuit; the fear of losing it is a great trouble, the loss of it a greater, and it is made a greater yet by opinion.

      Seneca (4 BC–AD 65), Roman philosopher and playwright

      Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money.

      The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.

      What madness it is

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