A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.

Bob Hope (1903 - 2003)

Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.

E. Joseph Cossman

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

I don't have a bank account, because I don't know my mother's maiden¹ name.

Paula Poundstone

I believe that banking² institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing³ armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.

Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), (Attributed)