top of page

"And with the money from your corn, from your rents, and from the issues of pleas in your courts, and from your stock, arrange the expenses of your kitchen and your wines and your wardrobe and the wages of servants, and subtract your stock."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Money quotes

"Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets."

"You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power."

"Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five."

"It's real difficult to save when you don't have any money."

"I was using tape loops for dancers and dance production. I had very funky primitive equipment, in fact technology wasn't very good no matter how much money you had."

"No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction."

"Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones."

"My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money."
Explore more quotes by Robert Grosseteste


"Make your free men and guests sit as far as possible at tables on either side, not four here and three there."


"The return from cows and sheep in cheese is worth much money every day in the season, without calves and lambs, and without the manure, which all return corn and fruit."


"Say to all small and great, and that often, that fully, quickly and willingly, without grumbling and contradiction, they do all your commands that are not against God."


"Also see how many quarters of corn you will spend in a week in dispensable bread, how much in alms."


"And if strangers come to supper they shall be served with more according as they have need."


"The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wool of two thousand one hundred marks, and so forth, counting by thousands."


"Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that they are faithful, discreet, and painstaking in the office for which they are received, and withal honest and of good manners."


"And you yourself always be seated at the middle fo the high table that your presence as lord or lady may appear openly to all, and that you may plainly see on either side all the service and all the faults."


"And be careful of this, that each day at your meals you have two overseers over your household when you sit at meals, and of this be sure, that you shall be very much feared and reverenced."


"If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over."
bottom of page