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.
Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought read more
Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.
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.
Money — the root of all evil.... Man needs roots.
Money — the root of all evil.... Man needs roots.
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 does not change men, it only unmasks them.
Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.
Make ducks and drakes with shillings.
Make ducks and drakes with shillings.
