Sarah Josepha Hale Quotes

The world is his who has money to go over it.

Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac.

When you're young and you have money, you become the CEO, automatically, of life, of your family.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

When you're in the States and you're a writer and you've got money and you walk into a bank, you're a bum with money.

Roger Kahn is someone with a gazillion dollars who thinks that he can use his vast fortune to buy television spots, particularly network television, and boost up his positives, make him appear to be a gentleman farmer, and cover up his warts.

Whosoever has money has power. It's not about a label. If you have money tomorrow, you will be powerful.

I got my first passport in 1989, when I was 28.

Money talks; there's no question about it.

When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners.

For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for leisure and peace of mind, money for trips to Italy. Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O lord, give me money, only money.

If you become famous and you start making money, then people want to give you things. It's the exact opposite of how it's supposed to be.

Consider how great is the encouragement which all the world gives to the lover; neither is he supposed to be doing anything dishonourable; but if he succeeds he is praised, and if he fail he is blamed.

It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.

In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did not need a passport for any country except Russia.:; The European emigrant, if he could scrape together a few pounds for the passage, simply set sail for America or Australia, and when he got there no questions were asked.:; In the eighteenth century it had been quite normal and safe to travel in a country with which your own country was at war.

What is most vile and despicable about money is that it even confers talent. And it will do so until the end of the world.

Threats to our standing in the eyes of others are remarkably potent biologically, almost as powerful as those to our very survival.

Money makes even bastards legitimate.

A bit of a stomach give a chap a position in society.

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty . . . . Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys basic people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

Money does all things,--for it gives and it takes away; it makes honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so forward, mutatis mutandis, to the end of the chapter.

The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.

Money gives me more energy than all the Granola bars in the world.