Great Throughts Treasury

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Herbert Newton Casson

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

Life | Life | Man | Money | Will | Worth | Happiness |

Horace Greeley

The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Life | Life | Man | Money | Plan |

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 |

Herbert Newton Casson

To lose money is nothing, but to lose hope, to lose nerve, to lose ambition - that makes men cripples.

Ambition | Hope | Men | Money | Nothing | Ambition |

Horace Greeley

The darkest hour of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Life | Life | Man | Money | Plan |

Horace Mann

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 |

Italian Proverbs

Patience, time and money accommodate all things.

Money | Patience | Time |

Horace Mann

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 |

Jewish Proverbs

With money in your pocket, you are wise, and you are handsome, and you sing well too.

Money | Wise |

James Bryant Conant

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.

Love | Money | Will |

James Hamilton

Are you not surprised to find how independent of money peace of conscience is, and how much happiness can be condensed in the humblest home? A cottage will not hold the bulky furniture and sumptuous accommodations of a mansion; but if God be there, a cottage will hold as much happiness as might stock a palace.

Conscience | God | Money | Peace | Will | God | Happiness |

Latin Proverbs

Nothing is so well fortified that money cannot capture it.

Money | Nothing |

Kahlil Gibran

Everything in life is good; even gold, for it teaches a lesson. Money is like a stringed instrument; he who does not know how to use it properly will hear only discordant music. Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and it enlivens the other who turns it upon his fellow man.

Gold | Good | Lesson | Life | Life | Love | Man | Money | Music | Will |

Lewis H. Lapham

We need to realize that money is not the ultimate power of the world. It is not money itself, but the love of money that is the root of all evil. If you let this love blot out courage, work, art, romance - then you are closing yourself into a narrower and narrower cage.

Art | Courage | Evil | Love of money | Love | Money | Need | Power | Romance | Work | World |

Lin Yutang

We do not know a nation until we know its pleasures of life, just as we do not know a man until we know how he spends his leisure. It is when a man ceases to do the things he has to do, and does the things he likes to do, that the character is revealed. It is when the repressions of society and business are gone and when the goads of money and fame and ambition are lifted, and man's spirit wanders where it listeth, that we see the inner man, his real self.

Ambition | Business | Character | Fame | Leisure | Life | Life | Man | Money | Self | Society | Spirit | Ambition | Society | Business |

Maimonides, given name Moses ben Maimon or Moshe ben Maimon, known as "Rambam" NULL

Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the reduced fellow man, either by a considerable gift or a sum of money or by teaching him a trade or by putting him in the way of business so that he may earn an honest livelihood and not be forced to the dreadful alternative of holding out his hand for charity. This is the highest step and summit of charity's golden ladder.

Business | Charity | Man | Money | Poverty | Business |

Marian Wright Edelman

We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.

Money |

Mother Teresa, born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu NULL

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.

God | Loneliness | Money | Poverty | Rest | Will | God |