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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For I can raise no money by vile means.
For I can raise no money by vile means.
Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.
Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.
Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife,
vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, read more
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife,
vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to
teach:
Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but
patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in
subjection with all gravity;
(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he
take care of the church of God?)
Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it.
Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it.
Money is like a sixth sense, and you can't make use of the other five without it.
Money is like a sixth sense, and you can't make use of the other five without it.
Still amorous, and fond, and billing,
Like Philip and Mary, on a shilling.
Still amorous, and fond, and billing,
Like Philip and Mary, on a shilling.
Marketers are out there trying to figure out how to get your money out of your child.
Marketers are out there trying to figure out how to get your money out of your child.
You reach a point where you don't work for money.
You reach a point where you don't work for money.
