Quotes About Life and Money

Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy." 

—Spike Milligan

I made $970,000 last year. How much you make? You see, pal, that's who I am, and you're nothing." 

—Alec Baldwin, Glengarry Glen Ross

If you can actually count your money, then you are not really a rich man." 

—J. Paul Getty

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed." 

—Edmund Burke


You can't be too greedy." 

—Donald Trump 


Money is like an arm or a leg. Use it or lose it." 

—Henry Ford


I've always loathed rich people, so I've become who I've loathed, which makes it doubly difficult, if you can follow me." 

—Larry David


Money doesn't talk; it swears." 

—Bob Dylan, "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)"


I like money. It's fun to fold and stack and smell and look at. It's just plain fun to count money, and I often do it in a loud falsetto while wearing nothing but a captain's hat and a coin changer." —Dennis Miller

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make complete use of the other five." 

—W. Somerset Maugha
"A fool and his money are soon parted." 

- Thomas Tusser 

I'm tired of Love: I'm still more tired of Rhyme. But Money gives me pleasure all the time.

- Hilaire Belloc

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didnt have it and thought of other things if you did.

- James Arthur Baldwin

University President: "Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment? Now the Department of Mathematics requires nothing but money for paper, pencils, and erasers...and the Department of Philosophy is better still. It doesn't even ask for erasers.

- Isaac Asimov