Money

Henry Thoreau was languishing in jail after he had refused to pay the Massachusetts poll tax in 1843 [to protest the Mexican-American War], Ralph Waldo Emerson came to visit him and asked him why he was there. “Waldo, why are ...

"The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money." - Source unknown ...

"This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were ...

"It cuts us off from life, from vitality, from the alive sun and the alive earth, as nothing can. Nothing, not even the most fanatical dogmas of an ironbound religion, can insulate us from the inrush of life and inspiration ...

"Money is a dream. It is a piece of paper on which is imprinted in invisible ink the dream of all the things it will buy, all the trinkets and all the power over others." - David T. Bazelon ...

“To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones.” - George Washington ...

"24.2 million millionaires control 1/3 of world’s wealth.  There are more millionaires than there are Australians." ...

"With money you can buy a house, but not a home.  With money you can buy a clock, but not time.  With money you can buy a book, but not knowledge.  With money you can buy blood, but not life.  ...

“Money will not make you happy, and happy will not make you money.” - Groucho Marx ...

"Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it."          - Fannie Hurst ...