Earning money Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of…

— Henry David Thoreau

“And this was known as that greatest of treasures, which is Hope. It was a good way of getting poorer really very quickly, and…

— Terry Pratchett

“We had no longing for excessive wealth: a mere competency, though earned by daily toil, so that it was reasonably sure, and free from…

— Edmund Morris

“Wisdom, in short, whose lessons have been represented as so hard to learn by those who never were at her school, only teaches us…

— Henry Fielding

“I have no longing for great wealth. For great adventure, yes, to travel widely and love deeply these things I value more than profits.…

— Julie Klassen

“Not everything must be done in exchange for money. Some of the greatest moments in our lives are generated from experiences with no monetary…

— Torron-Lee Dewar

“I will set aside the point that I see no special heroism in accumulating money, particularly if, in addition, the person is foolish enough…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“The English major reads because, as rich as the one life he has may be, one life is not enough.”

— Mark Edmundson

“It is a wiser, more generous, more noble thing to remember and point out the perfect words, than to invent poorer ones, wherewith to…

— John Ruskin

“To the glory of mankind, there was, for the first and only time in history, a country of money—and I have no higher, more…

— Ayn Rand

“Is worth for a man to lose his soul, and gain worldly wealth?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“It is hard luck on a young fellow to have expensive tastes, great expectations, aristocratic connections but no actual money in his pocket, and…

— Arthur Conan Doyle