Bankers And Banking

(217 votes)   Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(140 votes)   A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(136 votes)   I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(89 votes)   With a group of bankers I always had the feeling that success was measured by the extent one gave nothing away.

Lord Longford

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(87 votes)   It is no accident that banks resemble temples, preferably Greek, and that the supplicants who come to perform the rites of deposit and withdrawal instinctively lower their voices into the registers of awe. Even the most junior tellers acquire within weeks of their employment the officiousness of hierophants tending an eternal flame. I don't know how they become so quickly inducted into the presiding mysteries, or who instructs them in the finely articulated inflections of contempt for the laity, but somehow they learn to think of themselves as suppliers of the monetarized DNA that is the breath of life.

Lewis H. Lapham
1935-, American Essayist, Editor

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(87 votes)   There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate; not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries.

Edith Wharton
1862-1937, American Author

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(82 votes)   Good bankers, like good tea, can only be appreciated when they are in hot water.

Jaffar Hussein

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