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MONEY: If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. [The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.] (Francis Bacon, British essayist, philosopher, scientist, and statesman 1561-1626)
MONEY: If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. (The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.)
MONEY: No man's credit is as good as his money. (John Dewey, U.S. philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, 1859-1952)
MONEY: Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil. (Henry Fielding, English novelist, dramatist, London magistrate, and considered to be the founder of London's first police force, 1707-1754)
MONEY: Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in a female eye is more for the cash than the carrier. (Unknown source)
MONEY: Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth. (Henry Ward Beecher, U.S. clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, 1813-1887)
MONEY: Laws go where dollars please. (Portuguese proverb)
MONEY: Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in a female eye is more for the cash than the carrier. (Marya Marines, U.S. Marine Corps data base)
MONEY: Money is the fruit of evil as often as the root of it. (Henry Fielding, English novelist, dramatist, London magistrate, and considered to be the founder of London's first police force, 1707-1754)
MONEY: Some people's money is merited and other people's is inherited. (Ogden Nash, U.S. poet well known for his light verse, 1902-1971)
MONEY: There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is to enjoy earning it. (Edgar Watson Howe, U.S. novelist and newspaper and magazine editor 1853-1937)
MONEY: Why is there so much month left at the end of the money? (Unknown source)
MONEY: A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone. (Henry David Thoreau, U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)
MONEY: Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. (Henry David Thoreau, U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)
MONEY: When money is seen as a solution for every problem, money itself becomes the problem. (Richard J. Needham, Canadian humor columnist, 1912-1996)
MONEY: Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize that we can't eat money. (Native American proverb)
MONEY: Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize that we can't eat money. (Native American proverb)
MONEY: It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy. (George H. Lorimer, U.S. journalist, author, publisher, and long-term editor of The Saturday Evening Post, 1867-1937)