Money is human happiness in the abstract.
– Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) Does Money make the World Go Round?!!!
I was taken aback when I read that there are so much that can’t be bought by money. I thought everything has a price tag these days.
Anyway I saw a list of these 50 things in Facebook and I was forced to add my comment to a friend’s timeline disagreeing with some of those in the list. I am afraid my comment was unappreciated. LOL
Below is that list and would appreciate your thoughts! 😉
I think most of the things above can be achieved more easily with money!
Below are quotes from the famous, the millionaires and the billionaires. Surely they can give a better glimpse on how it is to have money, money, money!!! 🙂
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Money is power.
– Andrew Jackson
Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.
– Louisa May Alcott
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A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes life merry, but money is the answer for everything.
– Ecclesiastes 10:19
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Always live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.
– Josh Billings
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At the back of every great fortune lies a great crime.
– Honore de Balzac
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Everytime you spend money, you’re casting a vote for the kind of world you want.
– Anna Lappe
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I believe that the power to make money is a gift from God.
– John D Rockefeller
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If you can actually count your money, then you are not really a rich man.
– J. Paul Getty
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I’m not a paranoid deranged millionaire.
Goddammit, I’m a billionaire.
– Howard Hughes
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In suggesting gifts, money is appropriate, and one size fits all.
-William Randolph Hearst
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It is physically impossible for a well-educated, intellectual, or brave man t make money the chief object of his thoughts.
– John Ruskin
It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
– Alan Alda
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that it may be said to possess him.
—Bacon
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I don’t like money, but it quiets my nerves.
– Joe Louis
LOST money is bewailed with deeper sighs
Than friends, or kindred, and with louder cries.
– Juvenal
Money is a good thing to have. It frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy. – Groucho Marx
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.
– James Baldwin
Not having to worry about money is almost like not having to worry about dying.
– Mario Puzo
One should look down on money, but never lose sight of it.
– Andre Prevot
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PLAIN food is quite enough for me;
Three courses are as good as ten;
If Nature can subsist on three,
Thank heaven for three—Amen!
I always thought cold victual nice—
My choice should be vanilla-ice.
I care not much for gold or land;
Give me a mortgage here or there;
Some good bank-stock, some note of hand,
Or trifling railroad share:—
I only ask that fortune send
A little more than I shall spend.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes.
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To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
– George Bernard Shaw
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The only thing money gives is the freedom of not worrying about money.
– Johnny Carson
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The love of money is the root of all evil.
—1 Timothy 6:10.
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There’s certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.
– John Kenneth Galbraith
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness simply didn’t know where to go shopping.
Ayn Rand, born Alisa Rosenbaum, was a Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter.
She was born in St Petersburg in 1905. It was in 1917 that she fled Russia for America to escape pogroms, which were persecuting Jews and other ethics and religious groups.
Ayn Rand Quotes
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
– Ayn Rand
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But why should you care what people will say? All you have to di is please yourself.
– Ayn Rand
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Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equaled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism?
– Ayn Rand
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So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
– Ayn Rand
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The more you learn, the more you know that you know nothing.
– Ayn Rand
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Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.
– Ayn Rand
You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.
– Ayn Rand
One today is worth two tomorrows.
– Francis Quarles
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“The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why it is called the present.”
― Alice Moore Earle
Yesterday is a cancelled cheque; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is cash in hand – so spend it wisely
Born 27 July 1870
La Celle-Saint-Cloud, France
Died 16 July 1953 (aged 82)
Guildford, England
Occupation Writer, Member of Parliament (1906-1910)
Nationality French-British
Period 1896-1953
Genres Poetry, History, Essays, Politics, Economics, Travel literatures
Spouse(s) Elodie Hogan, 1896-1914
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Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else.
– Hillaire Belloc
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Money gives me pleasure all the time.
– Hillaire Belloc
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I’m tired of Love; I’m still more tired of Rhyme. But money gives me pleasure all the time.
– Hillaire Belloc
At the back of every great fortune lies a great crime.
