Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Money - christiansquoting.org.uk

money

Budget: A method for going broke methodically.

It's not hard to meet expenses, they're everywhere.

Money is an article which may be used as a universal passport to everywhere except heaven and as a universal provider of everything except happiness.

If money could talk, it would say goodbye.

All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.

I am having an out of money experience.

I have taken a vow of poverty. To annoy me send money.

If money is the root of all evil, why do churches want it so bad?

Don't lend people money, it gives them amnesia.

When money talks, nobody notices what grammar it uses.

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.--- Francis Bacon

I don't care too much for money
Money can't buy me love
The Beatles

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce? Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.-- Erasmus

The rich who are unhappy are worse off than the poor who are unhappy; for the poor, at least, cling to the hopeful delusion that more money would solve their problems -- but the rich know better. -- Sydney J. Harris

Put not your trust in money; but, rather, put your money in trust. Oliver Wendell Holmes

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket. Frank McKinney Hubbard

A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example. - Sir Robert Menzies (1894 &endash; 1978)

Antichrist is Mammon's son. - JOHN MILTON

There are many things that money can't buy, but it's very funny -- Have you ever tried to buy them _without_ money? -- Ogden Nash

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

Cheque enclosed are the two most beautiful words in the English language --Dorothy Parker

The buck stopped before it got here. Bob Phillips

The lust of lucre has so thoroughly seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them, than they to possess their wealth. --Pliny, "Letters"

I believe the power to make money is a gift of God...to be developed and used to the best of our abiblity for the good of mankind. Having been endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make money and still more money, and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience. --John D. Rockefeller, Sr, in Matthew Josephson, _The Robber Barons_

Misers are no fun to live with but they make great ancestors.--Tom Snyder

His money is twice tainted: 'taint yours and 'taint mine. Mark Twain

O cursed lust for gold,
To what dost thou not drive the heart of man?
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) (70-19BC).

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