Francis Bacon

To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.

None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.

I would live to study, and not study to live.

Opportunity makes a thief.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man’s intentions are published, it is an alarum to call up all that are against them. The second is to reserve a man’s self a fair retreat: for if a man engage himself, by a manifest declaration, he must go through, or take a fall. The third is, the better to discover the mind of another. For to him that opens himself, men will hardly show themselves adverse; but will fair let him go on, and turn their freedom of speech to freedom of thought.

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.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions – he had money, too.

A fool and her money are soon courted.

I rob banks because that’s where the money is.

The man who never has money enough to pay his debts has too much of something else.

I say, not in a braggadocios way, I’ve made billions and billions of dollars dealing with people all around the world.

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

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.

They usually have two tellers in my local bank, except when it’s very busy, when they have one.

In God we trust; all others must pay cash.

If you can count your money, you don’t have a billion dollars.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.

Money can’t buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.