"If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring."
― Marya Mannes
Topic(s): Money
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- "The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money."― Karl Marx
- "I dare say there may be some men and women in the Armed Forces who are so decent that they would say: Give the Iraqi people money, we do not want to be paid back. That is the strength of our country."― Lindsey Graham
- "It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics."― Robert Byrd