People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
The Bible, 1 Timothy 6:9, 10
It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want [lack] of money is so quite as truly.
Samuel Butler
To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton
The love of money is the parent of all wickedness.
Philoctetes
Nothing I am sure has such a tendency to quench the fire of religion as the possession of money.
J.C. Ryle