This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The whole record of civilization is a record of the failure of money as a higher incentive. The enormous majority of men never make any serious effort to get rich. The few who are sordid enough to do so easily become millionaires with a little luck, and astonish the others by the contrast between their riches and their stupidity... The belief in money as an incentive is founded on the observation that people will do for money what they will not do for anything else.
Belief | Civilization | Contrast | Effort | Enough | Failure | Little | Luck | Majority | Men | Money | Observation | People | Riches | Stupidity | Will | Riches | Failure |
The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet.
Learning | Love of learning | Love of money | Love | Money |
George Orwell, pen name of Eric Arthur Blair
In our age there is no such thing as “keeping out of politics.” All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air, and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up, and it cankers and breeds worms.
Henry David Thoreau, born David Henry Thoreau
The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward.
Money |
Henry David Thoreau, born David Henry Thoreau
You may raise money enough to tunnel a mountain, but you cannot raise money enough to hire a man who is minding his own business. An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not.
Henry David Thoreau, born David Henry Thoreau
Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.
Money | Soul | Superfluities | Wealth |
Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
Dishonesty | Money | Time | Unfaithfulness |
Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person’s money as his time.
Dishonesty | Money | Time | Unfaithfulness |
With money in your pocket, you are wise, and you are handsome, and you sing well too.
To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.