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)