英语格言警句_Money_(M16)

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

- Louisa May Alcott

Because it's so easy to copy anything, a lot of people have convinced themselves that they shouldn't have to pay for it. Well, the reason you get paid is because the people who sit all day long at their desks creating books and songs and software have mortgages. And if you're only going to sell one copy of everything and then the world is going to make a gazillion pirated copies off of it, it's going to be really hard to pay your mortgage.

- Pat Schroeder

There are three reasons for being a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.

- Quentin Crisp

Look to your health -- and value it next to a good conscience; for health is ... a blessing that money cannot buy.

- Izaak Walton

We must learn that petence is better than extravagance, that worth is better than wealth, that the golden calf we have worshiped has no more brains than that one of old which the Hebrews worshiped. So beware of money and of money's worth as the supreme passion of the mind. Beware of the craving for enormous acquisition.

- C. A. Bartol

Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.

- Bob Dylan

What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it.Opportunities, relationships, even money flowed my way when I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life.

- Oprah Winfrey

Instead of a bottom-line based on money and power, we need a new bottom-line that defines productivity and creativity as where corporations, governments, schools, public institutions, and social practices are judged as efficient, rational and productive not only to the extent they maximize money and power, but to the extent they maximize love and caring, ethical and ecological sensitivity, and our capacities to respond with awe and wonder at the grandeur of creation.

- Michael Lerner

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

- Thomas Jefferson

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.

- Barack Obama

Someone asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the monsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true and inplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

- Gloria Steinem

People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.

- Joan Rivers

We want rights. The flour merchant, the house-builder, and the postman charge us no less on account of our sex; but when we endeavor to earn money to pay all these, then, indeed, we find the interest. [1855]

- Lucy Stone

All the money you make will never buy back your soul.

- Bob Dylan

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it: "Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith."

- Benjamin Franklin

Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.

- John Wesley

The death penalty is reserved for people who do not have enough money to defend themselves.

- Paul Simon

But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air, and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up, and it cankers and breeds worms.

- George Macdonald

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum -- of both books and money! But especially books, for books represent infinitely more than money. A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold.

- Henry Miller

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

- Marian Wright Edelman

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

- Woody Allen

Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.

from "The Matchmaker"

- Thornton Wilder

What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.

- Frank Adams

A billion here and a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money.

- Everett Dirksen

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you bee uninterested in money, pliments, or publicity.

- Thomas Wolfe

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

God is on everyone's side … and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.

- Jean Anouilh

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy.

- Izaak Walton

When it's a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

- Voltaire

The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.

- Katherine Whitehorn

Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.

- James Russell Lowell

Money often costs too much.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.

- Jane Austen

The holy passion of friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring in nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

- Mark Twain