Thomas Carlyle Quotes

This whole business of Trade gives me to pause and think, as it constitutes false relations between men; inasmuch as I am prone tocount myself relieved of any responsibility to behave well and nobly to that person who I pay with money, whereas if I had not that commodity, I should be put on my good behavior in all companies, and man would be a benefactor to man, as being himself his only certificate that he had a right to those aids and services which each asked of the other.

Cash-payment is not the sole nexus of man with man.

Never mind money; the gifts of time and skill call into being the richest marketplace in the world.

The gold coin is spent.

Money was of no value whatever. Gold is quite unknown; it is thought to be brass; trade is carried on by barter alone. The people know nothing of money.

We all have some basic obligation to one another.

We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings.

Do you have a dollar on you? I hate to answer questions for nothing.

The quantity of money, which is readily parted with to obtain a thing is called its price.

I think there is a great quote - and I feel horrible that I don't know who said this - but it was a great quote, it says, "The only difference between all of us are the ones who are loved and the ones who are not."

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

If dirt were dollars, I wouldn't have to worry anymore.

It is trust, more than money, that makes the world go round.

Curiosity is part of the cement that holds society together.

I don't suppose there's a man going, as possesses the fondness for youth that I do. There's youth to the amount of eight hundredpound a-year, at Dotheboys Hall at this present time. I'd take sixteen hundred pound worth, if I could get 'em, and be as fond of every individual twenty pound among 'em as nothing should equal it!

Money is life energy that we exchange and use as a result of the service we provide to the universe.

Stories match the way our species thinks. Equally important, stories are something we share - everyone everywhere tells stories and oddly enough, in the same way. It all probably started around some campfire a million years ago.

No one would have known, from how he held my hand, [that] over the years of heartache he had hatched a plot to change my life forever. He held his grip and would not let me go. I do not know what joins the parts of an atom, but it seems what binds one human to another is pain.

The community of man should be treated in the same way you would treat your community of brothers or fellow citizens.

Give me the muny the cars, the case loads The mun-mun muny the Yen & the Pesos

Well money is not easy to describe. It is easy to lose but it cannot be lost, and no one can get really get used to it.

The Beatles, they had it all figured out, okay? "I Want to Hold Your Hand." The first single. It's effing brilliant, right?... That's what everybody wants, Nicky. They don't want a twenty-four-hour hump sesh, they don't want to be married to you for a hundred years. They just want to hold your hand.

Money is different from all other commodities: other things being equal, more shoes, or more discoveries of oil or copper benefit society, since they help alleviate natural scarcity. But once a commodity is established as a money on the market, no more money at all is needed. Since the only use of money is for exchange and reckoning, more dollars or pounds or marks in circulation cannot confer a social benefit: they will simply dilute the exchange value of every existing dollar or pound or mark.

money is not everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen

In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other.