How beauteous are rouleaus! how charming chests
Containing ingots, bags of dollars, coins
(Not of old victors, read more

How beauteous are rouleaus! how charming chests
Containing ingots, bags of dollars, coins
(Not of old victors, all whose heads and crests
Weigh not the thin ore where their visage shines,
But) of find unclipt gold, where dully rests
Some likeness, which the glittering cirque confines,
Of modern, reigning, sterling, stupid stamp;--
Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as read more

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.

Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.

For I can raise no money by vile means.

For I can raise no money by vile means.

There is a penalty for trying to knock
down a cockpit door, but it's the people
who try to go read more

There is a penalty for trying to knock
down a cockpit door, but it's the people
who try to go from coach to 1st class
they really beat up.

Money is a good servant but a bad master.
[Fr., L'argent est un bon serviteur, mais un mechant maitre."

Money is a good servant but a bad master.
[Fr., L'argent est un bon serviteur, mais un mechant maitre."

A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money
answereth all things.

A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money
answereth all things.

Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that read more

Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.