Francis Bacon

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

The waste of money cures itself, for soon there is no more to waste.

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

Most of the artists were trying to make a living, trying to get laid, trying to figure out who they were. They weren’t trying to change the world. That’s what other people put on them. I knew all those people. I knew them all, intimately and well. Bob Dylan. I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I’ve known in my life. That’s just the truth.

You fool! You’re 30 cents away from having a quarter!

Money is the best deodorant.

Hobbies cost money but interests are free

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

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.

They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.

Money makes your life easier. If you’re lucky to have it, you’re lucky.

You can’t tell a millionaire’s son from a billionaire’s.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Sex is one of the most wholesome, beautiful and natural experiences that money can buy

Whoever thinks that money can’t buy happiness . . . just doesn’t know where to shop!