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Money: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations
Still amorous, and fond, and billing, Like Philip and Mary on a shilling.— BUTLER — Hudibras. Pt. III. Canto I. L. 687.
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 fine 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.— BYRON — Don Juan. Canto XII. St. 12.
The way to resumption is to resume.— SALMON P. CHASE — Letter to Horace
Greeley. May 17, 1866. As I sat at the Café I said to myself, They may talk as they please about what they call pelf, They may sneer as they like about eating and drinking, But help it I cannot, I cannot help thinking How pleasant it is to have money, heigh-ho; How pleasant it is to have money!— ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH — Spectator
Ab Extra. Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfil. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman run away.— ABRAHAM COWLEY — Imitations. Tenth Epistle of Horace. Bk. I. L. 75.
This bank-note world.— FITZ — GREENE HALLECK-Alnwick
Castle. Get to live; Then live, and use it; else, it is not true That thou hast gotten. Surely use alone Makes money not a contemptible stone.— HERBERT — The Temple. The Church Porch. St. 26.
Fight thou with shafts of silver, and o'ercome When no force else can get the masterdome.— HERRICK — Money Gets the Mastery.
The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages.— WASHINGTON IRVING — The Creole
Village. Get money; still get money, boy; No matter by what means.— BEN JONSON — Every Man in His Humour. Act II. Sc. 3.
Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold, And almost every vice, almighty gold.— BEN JONSON — Epistle to Elizabeth,
Countess of Rutland. Money brings honor, friends, conquest, and realms.— MILTON — Paradise Regained. Bk. II. L. 422.
Trade it may help, society extend, But lures the Pirate, and corrupts the friend : It raises armies in a nation's aid, But bribes a senate, and the land's betray'd.— POPE — Moral Essays. Ep. III. L. 29.
time they called lack of money.— RABELAIS — Works. Bk. II. Ch. XVI.
But, by the Lord, lads, I am glad you have the money.— Shakespeare — Henry IV. Pt. I. Act II. Sc. 4. L. 298.
Fourth, eleventh, ninth, and sixth, Thirty days to each affix; Every other thirty-one, Except the second month alone. Common in Chester Co., Pa., among the Friends. Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November; All the rest have thirty-one Excepting February alone: Which hath but twenty-eight, in fine, Till leap year gives it twenty-nine. Common in New England States. January. Janus was invoked at the commencement of most actions; even in the worship of the other gods the votary began by offering wine and incense to Janus. The first month in the year was named from him; and under the title of Matutinus he was regarded as the opener of the day. Hence he had charge of the gates of Heaven, and hence, too, all gates, Januæ, were called after him, and supposed to be under his care. Hence, perhaps, it was, that he was represented with a staff and key, and that he was named the Opener (Patulcius), and the Shutter (Clusius).— M. A. DWIGHT — Grecian and Roman
Mythology. Janus. That blasts of January Would blow you through and through.— Shakespeare — Winter's Tale. Act IV. Sc. 4. L. 111.
Et genus et formam regina pecunia donat. All powerful money gives birth and beauty.— HORACE — Epistolæ. I. 6. 37.
Licet superbus ambules pecuniæ, Fortuna non mutat genus. Though you strut proud of your money, yet fortune has not changed your birth.— HORACE — Epodi. IV. 5.
Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi, simul ac nummos contemplor in arcâ. The people hiss me, but I applaud myself at home, when I contemplate the money in my chest.— HORACE — Satiræ. I. 1. 66.
Quærenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos. Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth.— HORACE — Epistolæ. I. 1. 53.
Quo mihi fortunam, si non conceditur uti? Of what use is a fortune to me, if I can not use it ?— HORACE — Epistolæ. I. 5. 12.
Rem facias rem, Recte si possis, si non, quocumque modo rem. A fortune-make a fortune; by honest means if you can; if not, by any means make a fortune.— HORACE — Epistolæ. I. 1. 65.
Ploratur lacrimis amissa pecunia veris. Money lost is bewailed with unfeigned tears.— JUVENAL — Satiræ. XIII. 134.
Quantum quisque suâ nummorum condit in arcâ, Tantum habet et fidei. Every man's credit is proportioned to the money which he has in his chest.— JUVENAL — Satiræ. III. 143.
Luat in corpore, qui non habet in ære. Who can not pay with money, must pay with his body. Law Maxim. Nec quicquam acrius quam pecuniæ damnum stimulat. Nothing stings more deeply than the loss of money.— LIVY — Annales. XXX. 44.
In pretio pretium nunc est; dat census honores, Census amicitias; pauper ubique jacet. Money nowadays is money; money brings office; money gains friends; everywhere the poor man is down.— OVID — Fasti. I. 217.
Les beaux yeux de ma cassette! Il parle d'elle comme un amant d'une maitresse. The beautiful eyes of my money-box! He speaks of it as a lover of his mistress.— MOLIÈRE — L'Avare. V. 3.
Point d'argent, point de suisse. No money, no service.— RACINE — Plaideurs. I. 1.