Common Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

— Jonathan Swift

If a man is wise, he gets rich an' if he gets rich, he gets foolish, or his wife does. That's what keeps the…

— Finley Peter Dunne

If you wish to get rich, save what you get. A fool can earn money; but it takes a wise man to save and…

— Brigham Young

Money is the root of all evil.' Then we hear, 'A fool and his money are soon parted.' What are they talking about? If…

— George Burns

There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.

— Francis Bacon

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

— Jonathan Swift

Money sometimes makes fools of important persons, but it may also make important persons of fools.

— Walter Winchell

It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.

— French Proverb

The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already.

— William Gilmore Simms

“Any fool can spend money. But to earn it and save it and defer gratification—then you learn to value it differently.”

— Malcolm Gladwell

Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

— Elbert Hubbard

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

— Aeschylus