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If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

—Dorothy Parker

The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.

—Aristotle, c. 322 BC

It costs a lot of money to be rich.

—Peter Boyle, 2002

Mammon, n. The god of the world’s leading religion. His chief temple is in the holy city of New York.

—Ambrose Bierce, 1911

Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.

—Kin Hubbard

He that serves God for money will serve the Devil for better wages.

—Roger L’Estrange, 1692

No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.

—Samuel Johnson, 1776

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.

—J. Paul Getty

Whoever expects to walk peacefully in the world must be money’s guest.

—Norman O. Brown, 1959

Business? Why, it’s very simple; business is other people’s money.

—Alexandre Dumas, 1857

Money, not morality, is the principle of commercial nations.

—Thomas Jefferson

Money is mourned with deeper sorrow than friends or kindred.

—Juvenal, 128

Much money makes a country poor, for it sets a dearer price on every thing.

—George Herbert, 1640