167 Metaphors for money

Money is the only kind of wealth that is not common, that is not given freely; and for that reason it has a deadening and demoralizing effect upon the minds of those who cultivate and increase it for its own sake, or fail to put it to its larger and more human uses.

* Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete, devotes his heart entirely to money.

What good will money be to menow?

Money, the love of which as representing liberty is a sore temptation to such as myself, is unimportant.

Darling, that money is Mrs. Jacobs's money, by every moral right.

But he'd lost all knowledge that the money was his ownmade by himselfhimself Saffron.

Money was Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.

" "My money is jest as good's any one else's," said the first.

So money, after all, is our only standard; and when a woman is as rich as you were yesterday she cannot hope for friends any more than the Queen of England can.

As cotton was almost the only source of revenue for the farmers, and as there was now no opportunity of getting it to market, there was such a dearth of money as had seldom, if ever, been known, and a corresponding dearth of those necessaries of life which money was the only means of procuring.

Money is the crust he leaps at; cry, "a duck!

She lives in the midst of the abounding marvels of the materialistic civilization; she sees how much is accomplished through the use of material forces; and the spirit of the time gets into her brain and blood, and she begins to think that money and the things that money can buy are the most essential conditions of her growth and usefulness.

The Mint I knew to be a place where all the money was coinedand

The money received from the people, instead of being kept till it is needed for their use, is, in consequence of this authority, a fund on which discounts are made for the profit of those who happen to be owners of stock in the banks selected as depositories.

The only money in circulation was American silver and British sovereigns.

Money was yet plenty, at least silver, (for the gold had already begun to disappear,) commerce in its usual train, and, in short, to one who observes no deeper than myself, every thing seemed gay and flourishingthe people were persuaded they were happier; and, amidst such an appearance of content, one must have been a cold politician to have examined too strictly into the future.

Sir, the money thus paid is the price of liberty; it is disbursed to hinder slavery from encroaching, to preserve our natural rights from infraction, and the constitution of our country from violation.

To him, money was a quite uninteresting token that had to pass through your hands.

The money too is a mixture of the coins of a dozen different countries.

The leaden money of Iaua, (being of bad Leade is very rough) hath in the middle a foure square hole, they are hanged by two hundred vppon a string, they are commonly 10. 11.

He and his father both held that the money advanced by my grandfather had been a gift and not a loan.

Money is only a title to wealth, because if I have a sovereign or a one-pound note in my pocket, I thereby have the power of buying a pound's worth of goods or of hiring a doctor to cure me or a parson to bury me or anybody else to do anything that I want, up to the buying power of that sovereign.

He had succeeded many a time without money when money was the supreme need, and he attacked this problem with the same grim perseverance that had carried him so successfully through many a similar ordeal.

Besides, if the rent is remitted this year, they will expect the same thing in the future, whereas they know that a little money is a passing charity on which they cannot count with certainty.

If money is a difficulty, I might lend you enough for a second-class passage, but that is all." Shillito smiled.

167 Metaphors for  money