Mahalia Jackson Quotes

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.

What is there that money will not do?

…luxury is the result of wealth, or it makes wealth necessary. It corrupts both rich and poor, the one by possessing, the other by coveting. It sells out the fatherland to indolence and vanity; it deprives the State of all its Citizens by enslaving some of them to others and all of them to opinion.

Money is sensual.

I think that money is the root of all evil. I've seen it happen.

Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

The only thing I like about rich people is their money.

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil.

Success and money can really be quite blinding.

Wealth conquered Rome after Rome had conquered the world.

I can buy any man in the world.

I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

It is profit that makes a wise man loose his senses.

It would be necessary to eliminate the excessive regard and esteem for wealth, because the craving for riches erodes the desire for true glory, prevents the cultivation of the virtues and results in countless seizures of what belongs to others, as well as many other dishonorable actions.

I was a millionaire twice over and half again before I was twenty-one. I stole every nickel of it and blew the bulk of the bundle on fine threads, gourmet foods, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes, fine wheels, and other sensual goodies.

Money can destroy people. It really can.

Money makes everybody evil when you think about it.

Cecil B. DeMille worshipped the almighty buck.