金錢能買到一條不錯的狗，但是買不到它搖動尾巴。
——美國幽默作家J.比林斯
No country， however rich， can afford the waste of its human resources.
——Franklin Roosevelt， American president
任何一個國家，不管它多麼富裕，都浪費不起人力資源。
——美國總統F.羅斯福
Poverty is an abnormality to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
——Walter Bagehot， British economist
對於富人來說，貧窮是不可理解的異常現象：他們怎麼也弄不明白，那些想要吃飯的人，為什麼不搖鈴讓人送來呢？
——英國經濟學家W. 巴傑特
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
——Albert Einstein， American scientist
有時候一個人為不花錢得到的東西付出的代價最高。
——美國科學家A.愛因斯坦
That man is the richest whose pleasure are the cheapest.
——Henry David Thoreau， American writer
能處處尋求快樂的人才是最富有的人。
——美國作家H. D.梭羅
The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweet.
——John Gay， British dramatist and poet
啜飲蜜糖的蒼蠅在甜蜜中喪生。
——英國劇作家、詩人J.蓋伊
The human species， according to the best theory I can form of it， is composed of two distinct races， the man who borrows， and the man who lends.
——Charles Lamb， British essayist
按照我所能歸納的最好理論，人類是由兩個截然不同的種族構成的，即借方與出借方。
——英國散文家C.蘭姆
The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing them.
——A. R .Rivarol， French writer
財富對有些人隻做了一件事：使他們擔心會失去財富。
——法國作家 A. R.裏瓦羅爾
The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error， and those of the poor and lowly， for crimes.
——Margrerite Blessington， Irish writer
富人和偉人的罪惡被錯當作謬誤，窮人和凡人的過失卻被錯當作犯罪。
——愛爾蘭作家M.布萊辛頓
There are only two families in the world， as a grandmother of mine used to say， the haves and the havenots.
——Miguel de Cervantes， Spanish novelist
正如我的一位祖母說過的那樣，這個世界上隻有兩家人：那就是富人和窮人。
——西班牙小說家M.塞萬提斯
Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.
——Gerald Brenan， British writer
手頭上有點錢的人認為愛是世界上最重要的東西，而窮人則明白世界上最重要的是金錢。
——英國作家G.布倫南
To suppose， as we all suppose， that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave， is like supposing that we could drink all day and keep absolute sober.
——Logan Pearsall Smith， American writer
如果以為我們變富後不會像有錢人那樣行事，這無異地以為我們能終日豪飲，但又能保持頭腦清醒。
——美國作家L. P.史密斯