Money Proverbs and Quotes

Discuss the following sayings and quotations about money. Do you agree with them?

PROVERBS AND IDIOMS

- Money makes the world go around. (Lyrics here)

- Money is the root of all evil. (The love of money is the root of all evil. The Bible. Timothy, 6. 10.)

- Money doesn’t buy happiness.

- The best things in life are free.

- Money doesn’t grow on trees.

- If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

- He who pays the piper calls the tune.

- A fool and his money are soon parted.

- A penny saved is a penny earned.


QUOTES

- A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. (Bob Hope)

- There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either. (Robert Graves)

- Money often costs too much. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

- Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings. (Carl Sandburg)

- Lack of money is the root of all evil. (George Bernard Shaw)

- Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. (Spike Milligan)

- When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life. Now that I am old, I know it is. (Oscar Wilde)