Root of All Evil - Money

Money

  • First Epistle to Timothy in the New Testament (1 Timothy 6:10) starts "For the love of money is the root of all evil"
  • Greed, one of the Seven Deadly Sins, the excessive love of money and other possessions
  • Radix malorum est cupiditas, Latin for "Greed is the root of all evil"

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Famous quotes containing the word money:

    “Lora May: I’ve been a good wife. The best wife your money could buy.
    Porter: Strictly cash and carry.”
    —Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909–1993)

    “What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy’s tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.”
    —William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863)

    “I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.”
    —John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937)