——Benjamin Franklin, American president

要想知道錢的價值,就想辦法去借錢試試。

——美國總統B.富蘭克林

If your riches are yours, why dont you take them with you to the other world?

——Benjamin Franklin, American president

如果財富是你的,那麼你為什麼不把它們和你一起帶到另一個世界去呢?

——美國總統B.富蘭克林

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

——Samuel Johnson, British writer

與其在死後手中握著一大把錢,還不如活著的時候活得豐富多彩。

——英國作家S.約翰遜

It is good to have money to buy things that money can buy, but it is better not to lose things money cannot buy.

——George H. Lorimer, American journalist

有錢去買能得到的東西當然不錯,但是不丟失用金錢買不到的東西更好。

——美國記者G. H.洛裏默

Men do not desire merely to be rich, but to be richer than other men.

——John Stuart Mill, British economist

人們不僅希望富有,而且希望比他人更富有。

——英國經濟學家J. S.穆勒

Money is a good servant and a bad master.

——Francis Bacon, British philosopher

金錢是善仆,也是惡主。

——英國哲學家F.培根

Money is a singular thing, it ranks with love as mans greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety.

——J.K. Galbraith, American economist

錢是最奇怪的東西,當它和愛情在一起時候,是人類幸福最大的源泉;當它和死亡聯係在

一起的時候,是人類焦慮的最重要緣由。

——美國經濟學家J. K.加爾布雷斯

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

——Francis Bacon, British philosopher

金錢好比糞肥,隻有撒到大地才是有用之物。

——英國哲學家F.培根

Money is not the root of all evils as is usually claimed, what is the root of all evils is the lust for money, that is the excessive, selfish and greedy pursuit of money.

——Nathaniell Hawthorn, American writer

金錢並非像平常說的那樣是萬惡之源。而對金錢的貪圖,既對金錢過分的、自私的、貪婪的追求,才是一切邪惡的根源。

——美國作家N.霍桑

Money is the sinew of love, as of war.

——George Farquhar, Irish dramatist

金錢是愛情的支柱,猶如金錢是戰爭的支柱一樣。

——愛爾蘭劇作家G.法誇爾

Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace of happiness.

——Herrick Ibsen, Norwegian dramatist

金錢可以是許多東西的外殼,卻不是裏麵的果實。它帶來食物,卻帶不來胃口;帶來藥,卻帶不來健康;帶來相識,卻帶不來友誼;帶來仆人,卻帶不來他們的忠心;帶來享受,卻帶不來幸福的寧靜。

——挪威劇作家H. 易卜生

Money will buy a pretty dog, but it wont buy the wag of his tail.

——J. Billings, American humorist