Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes. – Louisa May Alcott

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody. – Adlai E. Stevenson

Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money. – Sophocles