Before we set our hearts too much upon any thing, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.

—François de La Rochefoucald

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

—Socrates

He who knows he has enough is rich.             —Lao-tzu

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.                —Seneca

Money will buy you a bed, but not a good night’s sleep, a house but not a home, a companion but not a friend.

—Zig Ziglar

Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want.

—Geoffrey F. Abert

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

—G.K. Chesterton

Money does not corrupt people. What corrupts people is lack of affection ... Money is simply the bandage which wounded people put over their wounds.

—Margaret Halsey

Money is a good servant, but a poor master.

—Dominique Bouhours

Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

—Sydney J. Harris

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

                       —Anatole France

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

—Dorothy Parker

If hard work were such a wonderful thing, the rich would have kept it all to themselves.

—Lane Kirkland

It’s pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed.

—Kin Hubbard

Money is like manure. It’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around encouraging young things to grow.

—Thornton Wilder

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

                  —Winston Churchill