Money Quotes

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.