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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It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
A great fortune is a great slavery.
A great fortune is a great slavery.
Money is like manure: It's not worth anything unless you spread it around.
Money is like manure: It's not worth anything unless you spread it around.
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some
coveted after, they have erred read more
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some
coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced
themselves through with many sorrows.
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 only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the read more
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
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?)
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."
