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After the friends and relatives have all gone home, after the dinner you had for Thanksgiving has digested and your heartburn has passed, and after the football games have ended, there is one important piece of business you need to deal with—Black Friday. Everything is on sale—from Target, Walmart, Kmart, Toys"R"Us, Best Buy, you name it—and everything must go. These quotes are about money, something you may not want to think about as you shop till you drop and take advantage of the numerous Black Friday sales.
1. “Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.”
–Francis Bacon
2. “Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.”
–Aphra Behn
3. “I'm tired of Love; I'm still more tired of Rhyme;
But Money gives me pleasure all the time.”
–Hilaire Belloc
4. “Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.”
–Gerald Brenan
5. “It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.”
–Samuel Butler
6. “Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.”
–Lord Byron
7. “Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety.”
–John Kenneth Galbraith
8. “The Almighty Dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land.”
–Washington Irving
9. “It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.”
–John Maynard Keynes
10. “Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.”
–W. Somerset Maugham
11. “Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.”
–Spike Milligan
12. “I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.”
–Jules Renard
13. “There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.”
–Mark Twain
14. “Money, it's a crime
Share it fairly
But don't take a slice of my pie.”
–“Money” by Pink Floyd
15. “A fool and her money are soon courted.”
–Helen Rowland
16. “Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.”
–Oliver Wendell Holmes
17. “The way to become rich is to make money, my dear Edna, not to save it.”
–Kate Chopin
18. “Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.”
–Pearl S. Buck
19. “Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.”
–Thornton Wilder
20. "Let's kill two birds with one loan!"
–Goodman Ace
Sources:
Bernstein Partnow, Elaine. (2008). The Complete Idiot's Guide to Great Quotes for All Occasions. Alpha Books.
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary of Quotations. Merriam-Webster.
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