Bessie Smith

Bankruptcy stared me in the face, but one thought kept me calm; soon I’d be too poor to need an anti-theft alarm.

Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money.

I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money’s sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it’s just about a number. It’s never been anything I understood.

I was so poor growing up, if I wasn’t a boy, I’d have had nothing to play with.

Ah, yes, divorce … from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man’s genitals through his wallet

There is a very easy way to return from a casino with a small fortune: go there with a large one.

If a person gets his attitude towards money straight, it will straighten out almost every other area in his life.

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

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

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

I don’t like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

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

Someone stole all my credit cards, but I won’t be reporting it. The thief spends less than my wife did.