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.
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When it's a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
When it's a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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.
I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow who used to say, "Take
care of the pence, for the read more
I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow who used to say, "Take
care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves."
The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.
The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.
I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.
I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.
You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony.
You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony.
The primary goal of a vendor is to make money.
The primary goal of a vendor is to make money.
Money was made, not to command our will,
But all out lawful pleasure to fulfil.
Shame and read more
Money was made, not to command our will,
But all out lawful pleasure to fulfil.
Shame and woe to use, if we our wealth obey;
The horse doth with the horseman run away.
It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.
It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.
