Samuel Butler Quotes

People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human spirit can do.

When people say that college isn't worthwhile and paying all this money isn't worthwhile, I really disagree. I think those experiences and those classes that may not necessarily seem applicable in the moment end up coming back to you time and time again.

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Time is money.

We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.

Sure, it's nice to win. But there's only one thing that's important to me and that's the money we're going to get, win or lose. . . . I don't love baseball, I like it. And to me, baseball means money, and that's all I care about.

Every scientist would like to be able to move through research faster, to spend less time and money acquiring material or disseminating it.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

All things obey money.

No one seems to care for anything but about money today. Nothing is held of account except the bank accounts. Quality, education, civic distinction, public virtue seem each year to be valued less and less.

Dubai has been built very fast. The plan was money. The architect was money. The designer was money … And if you ever wondered what money would look like if it were left to its own devices, it’s Dubai.

How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant.

The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages; and unless some of its missionaries penetrate there, and erect banking houses and other pious shrines, there is no knowing how long the inhabitants may remain in their present state of contented poverty.

Nobody seemed to be interested in anything except making money.

Yes, money is important. But it's all about the creative process.

People who aren't artists don't think about creativity and art; they think about money.

When you understand that everything - and I do mean everything - in this nation that we live in, if not this world, is connected to the almighty dollar, it doesn't mean you worship it.

I don't think spending money is a guarantee for anything.

I don't talk to nobody. You know why? 'Cause if you ain't talkin' money, what the hell you talkin' bout?

science is a smorgasbord, and google will guide you to the study that's right for you.

I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat. I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.

Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured.

Pound notes are the best religion in the world.

Gold thou mayst safely touch; but if it stick Unto thy hands, it woundeth to the quick.