Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

 —Groucho Marx

Reconsider your definitions. We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.

—Martin Luther King, Jr

Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.

—Frank Lloyd Wright

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

—Bertrand Russell

Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.

—Dorothy L. Sayers

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

 —Socrates

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

—Dorothy Parker

Money does not corrupt people. What corrupts people is lack of affection… Money is simply the bandage which wounded people put over their wounds.

—Margaret Halsey

Before we set our hearts too much upon any thing, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.

—Francois de La Rochefoucald

If thee marries for money, thee surely will earn it.

—Ezra Bowen

Early to bed and early to rise – till you enough money to do otherwise.

–Lawrence Peter

When you don’t have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it’s sex. When you have both, it’s health. If everything is simply jake, then you’re frightened of death.

—J.P. Donleavy

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

 —Henry Ford

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom. And the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

 —W. Somerset Maugham

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he would like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

 –Irish blessing

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