Riches are a snare, a snare and a decoy to both soul and body!
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I do not think wealth is needful to make one happy. But love — ah! I could not live without it . . .
Children who have trifled with and lost everything — love, honour, hope, and faith — and who are travelling rapidly to the grave with no consolation save a few handfuls of base coins, which they must, perforce, leave behind them at the last.
Earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected. In the wilderness God gave Israel the manna every day, and they had no need to worry about food and drink. Indeed, if they kept any of the manna over until the next day, it went bad. In the same way, the disciple must receive his portion from…
We do not ask for wealth because he that has health and children will also have wealth. We do not pray to have money but to have more kinsmen. We are better than animals because we have kinsmen. An animal rubs its itching flank against a tree, a man asks his kinsman to scratch him.
Above all things, to be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.
Everyone's a Democrat until they get a little money. Then they come to their senses!
— Mike White, Jon Kasdan, Harold Weir, Joe Flaherty, imdb.com
The first thing I learned about having money was that it gives you choices. People don’t want to be rich. They want to be able to choose. The richer you are, the more choices you have. That is the freedom of money.
Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.
I don’t believe in more money more problems. I have no shame in saying that money rules. Money is freedom; money is happiness. My parents counted their pennies. I watched them, and I always said I would be the person at the hotel who would open the $4 bottle of water without flinching, just because…
I don't care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing.
Money is a scoreboard where you can rank how you're doing against other people.
Pretty soon, there's not gonna be any Jew or Aryan or Hindu or Muslim or Mexican or Blacks. There's just gonna be the rich and the fucked, and our grandson is already one of the fucked.
— Dominique Morisseau, Frank Gallagher, William H. Macy, imdb.com
Let some people get rich first, and gradually all the people should get rich together.
I’m wealthy and ghetto.
"Cause when you die, you cannot take it with you If you ain't beefin' 'bout the money, then what's the problem?"
"And everybody got they opinions But they ain't got no money"
Married to the money, I ain't never let go
"I spotted you, you had that glow Watch me pull out all this dough Take you where you want to go"
I'm a successful drag queen. And not some bitch who has to show for a dollar.