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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Money is like manure: It's not worth anything unless you spread it around.
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Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.
Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.
Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.
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.
When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.
When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
Money can't buy happiness; it can, however, rent it.
Money can't buy happiness; it can, however, rent it.
Money talks — but credit has an echo.
Money talks — but credit has an echo.
