No one in this world, so far as I know – and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me – has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

Of course, I do everything for money.

My mother’s love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.

It was the money from ‚Star Wars‘ and ‚Jaws‘ that allowed the theaters to build their multiplexes, which allowed an opening up of screens.

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

John Dalton’s records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

It takes a smart man to play dumb.

I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

Money for me today does not really matter.

A development deal is where they’re giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they’ll put an album out.

It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

I wouldn’t say I’m a feminist, but I don’t like girls pretending to be stupid because it’s easier.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

I just feel like, with rappers, there’s so much complacency. It’s like, ‚Oh, I’m a rapper. I’m successful. I make money. That’s all that matters.‘ But there’s a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you’re aware of it, it’s happening.

Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals – and the most silly.

A right delayed is a right denied.

I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.

This above all; to thine own self be true.

There’s always gonna be rock n‘ roll bands, there’s always gonna be kids that love rock n‘ roll records, and there will always be rock n‘ roll.

Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.

Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle… and not just in the sense of money, by the way; the Beatles are untouchable – those billionaire reports are a joke.

The human race may be the only intelligent beings in the galaxy.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet.

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

I’ve written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that’s what’s been fun about looking back.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.