- Quotes by William Somerville
“Let all the learned say what they can, ‘Tis ready money makes the man”. - Quotes by Logan Pearsall Smith
“The wretchedness of being rich is that you live with rich people”. - Quotes by Adam Smith
“It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense…They are themselves always, and without exception, the greatest spendthrifts in society. Let them look well after their own expense, and they may safely trust private people with theirs”. - Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelly
“The harmony and happiness of man. Yields to the wealth of nations. Wealth is a power usurped by the few, tocompel the many to labour for their benefit”.
- Quotes by William Shakespeare
“Saint-seducing gold. I hate him for he is a Christian, But more for that in low simplicity, He lends out money gratis and brings down, The rate of usance here with us in Venice. There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest, For I did dream of money-bags tonight. You take my house when you do take the prop, That doth sustain my house; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live. He is well paid that is well satisfied. Bell, book, and candle shall not drive me back, When gold and silver becks me to come on. Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man”.
Tags: Adam Smith, Logan Pearsall Smith, Money And Wealth, Percy Bysshe Shelly, William Shakespeare, William Somerville
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