Oscar Wilde

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

True friends stab you in the front.

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

Money is the best deodorant.

Money makes your life easier. If you’re lucky to have it, you’re lucky.

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.

It’s the same old story, all you think about is money.

Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.

The want of money is the root of all evil.

A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way.

More and more these days I find myself pondering how to reconcile my net income with my gross habits.

Most of the artists were trying to make a living, trying to get laid, trying to figure out who they were. They weren’t trying to change the world. That’s what other people put on them. I knew all those people. I knew them all, intimately and well. Bob Dylan. I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I’ve known in my life. That’s just the truth.

The faster I make a lot of money, the faster I can have these kids I want.

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.

finally know what distinguishes man from other beasts: financial worries.

Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.

Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks.