Money

In the bad old days, there were three easy ways of losing money -- racing being the quickest, women the pleasantest, and farming the most certain.
~ William Pitt Amherst

Money, though a bad master, is a good servant.
~ William Arnot, Laws from Heaven for Life on Earth: Illustrations of the Book of Proverbs (1857). LI. The Money Power

A number of stories in the media have reported that I have engaged in high stakes gambling over the past decade. It is true that I have gambled large sums of money. I have also complied with all laws on reporting wins and losses. ... Nevertheless, I have done too much gambling, and this is not an example I wish to set. Therefore, my gambling days are over.
~ William John Bennett, U.S. Newswire (5 May 2003). Statement of William J. Bennett

I play fairly high stakes. I adhere to the law. I don't play the "milk money." I don't put my family at risk, and I don't owe anyone anything.
~ William John Bennett, in Newsweek magazine (2 May 2003). The Man of Virtues Has a Vice

[A] man who knows the value of money also knows how worthless money can be.
~ G.W. "Billy" Bitzer

To me there's only one position you can take as an actor. That's to get into such a financial position you can afford to say no. Integrity is one thing, but you have to be able to afford good taste.
~ Bill Bixby, The Milwaukee Journal (15 August 1965). Interview on the Acting Profession

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief's.
~ William Blake, in The Letters of William Blake (1956). Letter (23 August 1799)

Where any view of Money exists Art cannot be carried on, but War only ...
~ William Blake, The Laocoön (c. 1818).

Direct corporate spending on political activity raises the prospect that resources possessed in the economic marketplace may be used to provide an unfair advantage in the political marketplace.
~ William Joseph Brennan, Jr., (1986).

In the opinion of the Fathers of the Republic coin was the only money that the people needed; paper was but an incident, a make-shift that might be used to bridge over periods of scarcity of coin; it was in no sense regarded as a permanent medium of exchange.
~ William Brough, The Natural Law of Money (1894). Chapter VII. Mandatory Money and Free Money

So almost limitless are the possibilities of service in this age that I am not willing to fix a maximum to the sum a man can honestly and legitimately earn.
~ William Jennings Bryan, from Speeches of William Jennings Bryan, Volume II (1909). The Price of a Soul

Care to dispend according to thy store,
And in like sort be mindful of the poor.
~ William Byrd, from Psalmes, Sonets and Songs of Sadnes and Pietie, Made Into Musicke Of Fiue Parts (1588). Care for Thy Soul as Thing of Greatest Price

Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money.
~ William John ("W.J.") Cameron, from The Ford Sunday Evening Hour Talks, Volumes 1934-1936 (1936).

The wages of gin is debt.
~ Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, (October 1922).

The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.
~ "Johnny" William Carson

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to this matter; for it very frequently happens, it has happened to thousands upon thousands, not only to be ruined, according to the common acceptation of the word; not only to be made poor, and to suffer from poverty, in consequence of want of attention to pecuniary matters; but it has frequently, and even generally, happened, that a want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science, and of genius itself.
~ William Cobbett, Advice to Young Men: And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life (1829). Letter II: To A Young Man

[E]very insolvent blames a solvent, that will not lend him money.
~ William Cobbett, in Rural Rides (1853 edition). From Petersfield to Kensington

[P]ublic credit means, the contracting of debts which a nation never can pay.
~ William Cobbett, Advice to Young Men: And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life (1829). Letter II: To A Young Man

It is not the volume of money but the activity of money that counts.
~ W. Bourke Cockran, Speech at Madison Square Garden, New York City NY (18 August 1896)

I have no money, you know it; and therefore resolve to rail at all that have.
~ William Congreve, Love for Love (1695). Act I, scene 1

The more we study the courses of this world's history, the more certainly do we discover that a love of money is the root of most of the evils which beset humanity.
~ William Leonard (W.L.) Courtney, Armageddon-And After (1914). Chapter III: Some Suggested Reforms. Greatness of States

When I had money, money, O!
My many friends proved all untrue;
But now I have no money, O!
My friends are real though very few.
~ William Henry (W.H.) Davies, Nature Poems (1908). Money

[C]hauffeured limousines lined up outside fancy, new glass towers, while the homeless congregated in Grand Central Station and lavish Park Avenue parties that made headlines while the lines lengthened at the soup kitchens.
~ William ("Bill") H. Donaldson (on the bull market of the 1980s), quoted in The Associated Press (10 December 2002). Bush Picks Investment Banker to Lead SEC

Income is not greenbacks, it is satisfaction; it is creation; it is beauty.
~ William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B.) Du Bois (address on his 90th birthday in 1958), from The Autobiography of W.E.B. DuBois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century (1968). Chapter XXIII: My Tenth Decade

Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money -- it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it.
~ David William Duchovny, Playboy Interview: David Duchovny (December 1998).

My favorite bill is the one hundred.
~ David William Duchovny, Playboy Interview: David Duchovny (December 1998).

Whenever I see one of those ads where you get eight CDs for a penny, and then you have to pay another penny for the next CD, I immediately call up and demand to know why the last one is so expensive. Why does it cost eight times as much as the others?
~ Bil Dwyer

If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.
~ Bill Earle

Patience is indeed the hardest part of trading and investing, but also the most important, ... it is in the waiting that we make bigger profits
~ William F. Eng, Trading Rules: Strategies for Success (1990).

As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel. ...
~ William Faulkner

It is assumed that anyone who makes a million dollars has a unique gift, though he might have made it off some useless gadget.
~ William Faulkner, in Lion In The Garden: Interviews with William Faulkner, 1926-1962 (1968).

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
~ William Feather

Inability to pay decides for many of us perplexing questions that worry the well-to-do.
~ William Feather

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.
~ William Feather, in The William Feather Magazine

The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.
~ William Feather

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
~ W.C. Fields

All my available funds are completely tied up in ready cash.
~ W.C. Fields

The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart.
~ W.C. Fields

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.
~ Bill Gates, Interview in PBS TV NOW with Bill Moyers (9 May 2003).

Give me five minutes with a person's checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.
~ Billy Graham

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.
~ Billy Graham

Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?
~ Billy Graham, Sermon at the Greater Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky Billy Graham Mission, Paul Brown Stadium, Cincinnati OH (28 June 2002).

If democratic expression is reduced to a question of money, then those with money will always have more.
~ William Greider, Who Will Tell The People?: The Betrayal Of American Democracy (1992). Chapter 1. Mock Democracy

The European Union, meanwhile, is patiently assembling the economic girth and institutional confidence to act as the leading counterpoise to Washington. That is the essential idea of the euro -- a competing world currency other nations can use for trade and as a reliable storehold of wealth. As the euro establishes its durability and comes into wider usage, the dollar will no longer be the only option. At that point, it will be easier for Europe or others to exercise their financial leverage against the United States without damaging themselves or the global financial system as a whole.
~ William Greider, in The Nation magazine (23 September 2002). The End of Empire

For every dollar a man has that he didn't work for, another man worked for a dollar he didn't get.
~ William D. "Big Bill" Haywood

Never gamble. Or if you play for any thing, never do so for what will give you uneasiness the next day.
~ William Hazlitt, Table-talk; Or, Original Essays, Volume II (1825 edition). On The Conduct Of Life; or, Advice to a School-Boy (1822 essay)

There are two classes of people that I have observed who are not so distinct as might be imagined -- those who cannot keep their own money in their hands, and those who cannot keep their hands from other people's.
~ William Hazlitt, in Monthly Magazine (January 1827). On the Want of Money

You know all that money we spend on the military ever year -- trillions of dollars? Instead, if we use this money to feed and clothe the poor of this world, which it would do many times over, then we can explore space, inner and outer, together, as one race.
~ Bill Hicks

Money, you have lots of friends
hanging round the door.
When it's gone
and the spending ends
They don't come no more.
~ Billie Holiday, God Bless the Child (1941 song).

Whoe'er in trade shall money find,
Acquires a pleasure to his mind;
More joy by far he'll have in heaping,
Than either spending or in keeping.
~ William Hutton, from Poems, chiefly tales (1804). The tobacconist (written in 1794)

As regards all such changes, we should remember that in the present we are ever moulding the future, and that a world-wide system of international money, though it may seem impracticable at the moment, is an object at which all those should aim who wish to leave the world better than they found it.
~ William (W.) Stanley Jevons, Money and the Mechanism of Exchange (1875). Preface

You can't dress trashy 'til you spend a lot of money.
~ Billy Joel, in Glass Houses (1980 album). It's Still Rock and Roll to Me

I know [it's crooked], but it's the only game in town.
~ "Canada Bill" Jones

It is morally wrong to allow suckers to keep their money.
~ "Canada Bill" Jones

It has been much easier to make money than to know how to spend it wisely.
~ W.K. Kellogg, (1925)

Industry earns, economy manages, prudence plans, frugality saves; but thrift earns, plans, manages, and saves.
~ William Henry ("W.H.") Kniffin, The Savings Bank and Its Practical Work (1912). Chapter IV. The Thrift Habit

Yu say, "Dese guys ban mostly yaps:
Ay vish ay had some money, tu,
And not get all dese gude hard raps."
Val, Maester, it ban op to yu.
~ William F. Kirk, The Norsk Nightingale (1905). It's Up to You

He that rightly understands the reasonableness and excellency of charity, will know that it can never be excusable to waste any of our money in pride and folly, or in any needless expenses.
~ William Law, A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life (1728). Chapter V

He who strives to be a reformer, and to discharge his high trust with strict and single reference to the responsibilities of his vocation, will be sadly admonished by his dwindled receipts that he has not chosen the path of profit, however much he may be consoled by knowing it is that of honour.
~ William Leggett, in A Collection of the Political Writings of Willam Leggett (1840). The Newspaper Press

Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves.
~ William Lowndes (5 February 1750), in Lord Chesterfield Letters to his Son (1774).

We survived the 1980's. Back then, the economic program was called "trickle down." That actually meant they were pissing on you. How the whole theory goes was this: "We have all the money. If we drop some, it's yours. Go for it."
~ Bill Maher

I know my management company is working hard to bring in the dollars and, to be honest, it is something I didn't ever think about. I wasn't aware there was money to be made out of being marketable. ... It's not something I set out to do by having my hair like this, it's just me. But if it comes along, that's great.
~ Willie Mason, The Sydney Morning Herald (8 December 2002). Willie's good hair day

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
~ W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage (1915). Chapter 116

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
~ W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage (1915). Chapter 51

Money ... is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.
~ W. Somerset Maugham, quoted in W. Somerset Maugham and the Quest for Freedom (1972).

The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil.
~ W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage (1915). Chapter 51

The best things in life are free and $19.95.
~ Billy Mays, interview in Portfolio Magazine, World According to ... (October 2008). Q&A With Pitchman Billy Mays

A nation is not in danger of financial disaster merely because it owes itself money.
~ Andrew William Mellon

Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.
~ Wilson Mizner

Money is the only substance which can keep a cold world from nicknaming a citizen "Hey, you!"
~ Wilson Mizner

The man who won't loan money isn't going to have many friends -- or need them.
~ Wilson Mizner

If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time.
~ Willie Nelson

There are more serious problems in life than financial ones, and I've had a lot of those. I've been broke before, and will be again.
~ Willie Nelson

Although you have so far demonstrated little faith in my ability to pay, I yet hope to demonstrate that I am somebody who pays his debts--for example, to you.
~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

My philosophy is that all stocks are bad. There are no good stocks unless they go up in price. If they go down instead, you have to cut your losses fast.
~ William J. O'Neil

There is no pleasure in taking out of a large, unmeasured fund. They who do that are the mere conveyors of money from one hand to another.
~ William Paley, Reasons For Contentment, Addressed To The Labouring Part Of The British Public (sermon given in 1790; published in 1793).

The bank hath benefit of interest on all moneys which it creates out of nothing.
~ Sir William Paterson, (c. 1694).

History shows that money will multiply in volume and divide in value over the long run. Or expressed differently, the purchasing power of currency will vary inversely with the magnitude of the public debt.
~ William Herbert Peterson, in Challenge (November 1959). Peterson's Law: An Economist's Foray Into the Nature of Money and the Declining Value Thereof

[M]oney made of gold and silver is the best rule of commerce.
~ Sir William Petty, in The Economic Writings of Sir William Petty, Volume II (1899). Quantulumcunque concerning Money, 1682

No man pays double or twice for the same thing, forasmuch as nothing can be spent but once.
~ Sir William Petty, A Treatise of Taxes, and Contributions (1662). Chapter 15: Of Excise

The little I know of it has not served to raise my opinion of what is vulgarly called the "Monied Interest;" I mean, that blood-sucker, that muckworm, that calls itself "the friend of government.
~ William Pitt (1st Earl of Chatham), Speech delivered in the House of Lords (2 November 1770)

I have spent my career trying to get Congressmen to spend the people's money as if it were their own. But I have failed.
~ William Proxmire

Move over, $7,000 coffeepots! Stand aside, $400 hammers! We now have the $792 doormat!
~ William Proxmire

The poor taxpayer may wipe his shoes on a $3 doormat when he goes home, but not the Navy. It is, damn the cost, full feet ahead on a doormat you would be ashamed to get muddy.
~ William Proxmire, in The New York Times (4 October 1985).

Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff.
~ Will Rogers

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock, and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.
~ Will Rogers, Daily Telegrams (31 October 1929).

Invest in inflation. It's the only thing going up.
~ Will Rogers

The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket.
~ Will Rogers

The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got.
~ Will Rogers, quoted in Criswell Freeman The Wisdom of the West (1997).

There is not a man in the country that can't make a living for himself and his family. But he can't make a living for them AND the government, too, the way his government is living. What the government has got to do is live as cheap as the people.
~ Will Rogers

Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.
~ Will Rogers

We have the best Congress money can buy.
~ Will Rogers

What he needs is some way to pay back. Not some way to borrow more.
~ Will Rogers

Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repairing.
~ Billy Rose, in The New York Post (26 October 1957).

How did money ever happen? What's it mean? What's it for?
~ William Saroyan, Jim Dandy, Fat Man in a Famine (1947).

Money is the guiltiest thing in the world. It stinks.
~ William Saroyan, The Time of Your Life (1939 play).

I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse; borrowing only lingers and lingers it out; but the disease is incurable.
~ William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II. Act I, scene ii

I do not set my life at a pin's fee.
And for my soul, what can it do to that,
Being a thing immortal as itself?
~ William Shakespeare, Hamlet. Act I, scene iv

Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
~ William Shakespeare, Hamlet. Act I, scene iii

Nothing comes amiss; so money comes withal.
~ William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

Put money in thy purse; follow thou the wars; defeat thy favour with an usurped beard; I say, put money in thy purse.
~ William Shakespeare, Othello. Act I, scene iii

[W]hen rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will.
~ William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing. Act III, scene iii

If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!
~ William Shatner, Priceline TV commercial (2001).

Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.
~ William Shenstone, in Works in Verse and Prose, Vol. II (1764). Essays on Men, Manners, and Things. Of Men and Manners

The Money Power holds our Government in its grasp. Its clutch is as cold as the hand of death, -- as merciless as the grave. It is organized injustice.
~ William Neill Slocum, Revolution: The Reorganization Of Our Social System Inevitable (1878).

No friendship can survive the gift of gold. The generous can indeed forget that they have given, but the grateful can never forget that they have received.
~ William Henry Smith, Thorndale: Or, The Conflict of Opinions (1857). Book II. Chapter 6. Meeting with a Utopian Philosopher

What is more notorious than that wherever a pecuniary interest appears upon the scene, friendship retires? Whether you take money from me, or whether you give it, the transaction is alike fatal to our old bond of amity.
~ William Henry Smith, Thorndale: Or, The Conflict of Opinions (1857). Book II. Chapter 6. Meeting with a Utopian Philosopher

A penny sav'd's a penny got.
~ William Somervile, from Occasional Poems, Translations, Fables, Tales, Etc. (1727). The Sweet-scented Miser

Let all the learn'd say what they can,
'Tis ready-money makes the man.
~ William Somervile, from Occasional Poems, Translations, Fables, Tales, Etc. (1727) Fable XIV. The Fortune-Hunter, Canto II

Perhaps the moral ambiguity of money is most plainly evidenced in the popular belief that money itself has value and that the worth of other things or of men is somehow measured in monetary terms, rather than the other way around.
~ William Stringfellow, Dissenter in a Great Society: A Christian View of America in Crisis (1966).

Where money is an idol, to be poor is a sin.
~ William Stringfellow, Dissenter in a Great Society: A Christian View of America in Crisis (1966).

Because that's where the money is.
~ William "Willie" Sutton (when asked why he robbed banks; later, this formed the basis of Sutton's law).

Why did I rob banks? Because I enjoyed it. I loved it. I was more alive when I was inside a bank, robbing it, than at any other time in my life. I enjoyed everything about it so much that one or two weeks later I'd be out looking for the next job. But to me the money was the chips, that's all.
~ William "Willie" Sutton, Where the Money Is: The Memoirs of a Bank Robber (1976).

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.
~ William A. "Billy" Sunday

I played baseball because I could make more money doing that than I could doing anything else.
~ Bill Terry

No business in the world has ever made more money with poorer management.
~ Bill Terry

[B]y economy and good management -- by a sparing use of ready money and by paying scarcely anybody, -- people can manage, for a time at least, to make a great show with very little means.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero (1848). Chapter LI

I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero (1848). Chapter XLI

What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
~ William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero (1848). Chapter XI

[W]hen we say of a gentleman that he lives elegantly on nothing a year, we use the word "nothing" to signify something unknown; meaning, simply, that we don't know how the gentleman in question defrays the expenses of his establishment.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero (1848). Chapter XXXVI

Though small was your allowance,
You saved a little store:
And those who save a little
Shall get a plenty more.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray, The King of Brentford's Testament. Stanza 22

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
~ William E. "Bill" Vaughan

Not really -- they lean towards cash.
~ Bill Veeck (on whether free agents leaned towards big cities).

There is no such thing as government money, only taxpayer money.
~ William Weld

I have tried to teach people there are three kicks in every dollar: one, when you make it; two, when you have it. The third kick it when you give it away -- and it is the biggest kick of all.
~ William Allen White

We are apt to say that money talks, but it speaks a broken, poverty-stricken language. Hearts talk better, clearer, and with a wider intelligence.
~ William Allen White, from The Editor and His People (1924). What is a Man Profited? (August 1901 column)

I continually find it necessary to guard against that natural love of wealth and grandeur which prompts us always, when we come to apply our general doctrine to our own case, to claim an exception.
~ William Wilberforce, in Wilberforce (1977).

Nothing indicates so clearly the intellectual and moral stamina of a man than the attitude he assumes in affairs involving large sums of money.
~ George Gilbert Williams, in Modern Achievement, II. Business and Professional Life (1902). Business, Trade, and Industries. The Bank Clerk

First, we've really got to admit to ourselves that this problem exists, not sweep it under the rug. There's no greater problem that faces black folks, including drugs and AIDs, than economic deprivation. We're being cheated, and we didn't just start being cheated.
~ Hosea Williams, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (5 May 1988). The Color of Money: Panel to probe banks' lending policies

When you come, like I did, from a poor African-American community and then you find yourself with so much money that you have to weigh it, you get problems. It's the God complex.
~ Melvin "Little Melvin" Williams, The Baltimore Sun (17 January 2003). Ex-Baltimore drug kingpin 'Little Melvin' Williams freed

Just because I have money, does that make me any different from these guys here?
~ Mitchell Steven "Wild Thing" Williams (on bartending in his bar and grill in Pennsauken, PA).

If you took all the money and wealth that exists in the world right now, and put it in an obviously huge pot and then shared it out equally, there would be enough for all 5 billion people on the planet to have over £1 million pounds each! Our thoughts of money being scarce are simply not accurate. We may experience a personal lack, but this is very different from there simply not being enough money overall. So what is the problem with money, other than unequal distribution?
~ Nick Williams, The Work You Were Born to Do (1999).

[T]he human animal is a beast that dies and if he's got money he buys and buys and buys and I think the reason he buys everything he can buy is that in the back of his mind he has the crazy hope that one of his purchases will be life everlasting!
~ Thomas Lanier ("Tennessee") Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955). Act Two

You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it.
~ Thomas Lanier ("Tennessee") Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955). Act One

Empty pockets make empty heads.
~ William Carlos Williams, from The Collected Later Poems of William Carlos Williams (1950). Raleigh Was Right

I like having the dough to come and go as I please.
~ Bruce Willis

Always remember, money isn't everything -- but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense.
~ Earl Wilson

Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.
~ Earl Wilson

You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.
~ Clerow "Flip" Wilson

All these financiers, all the little gnomes in Zurich.
~ Harold Wilson, Speech, House of Commons (12 November 1956).

From now the pound abroad is worth 14 per cent or so less in terms of other currencies. It does not mean, of course, that the pound here in Britain, in your pocket or purse or in your bank, has been devalued.
~ Harold Wilson, Ministerial Broadcast (often quoted as "the pound in your pocket", 19 November 1967)

One man's wage rise is another man's price increase.
~ Harold Wilson, The Observer (11 January 1970).

Money is the most unimportant thing in the world if you have enough to live.
~ Kemmons Wilson, quoted in The Memphis Commercial Appeal (13 February 2003). King of deals Kemmons Wilson dies

These days an income is something you can't live without -- or within.
~ Tom Wilson, Ziggy

Money makes up in a measure all other wants in men.
~ William Wycherley, The Country Wife (1673). Act II, scene i

It is an old Maxim, that every Man has his Price, if you can but come up to it.
~ William Wyndham, in The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons: volume 8: 1733-1734 (1742). The first Parliament of George II: Seventh session (part 7 of 8, from 13/3/1734)