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Nothing is so easy to learn as spending money... ~Barbra Ring, Før kulden kommer, 1915, translated from the Norwegian by
Time flies, but not so fast as money. ~"Poor Richard Junior's Philosophy," The Saturday Evening Post, 1907, George Horace Lorimer, editor
True sterling happiness and joy
Are not with gold allied;
Nor can it yield a pleasure like
A merry fireside...
~J.J. Reynolds, "A World of Love at Home," in The New Monthly Belle Assemblée, October 1844
Destiny shapes our ends, but making ends meet is our own responsibility. ~Arnold H. Glasow (1905–1999)
Old Philpot: I instill'd good principles into thee.
George Philpot: So you did, Sir— (aside) Principal and interest is all I ever heard from him...
~Arthur Murphy, The Citizen, c.1760
The man of the constitutional régime is not a merry-maker, quite the contrary. He is hypocritical, avaricious, and profoundly selfish; whatever question strikes against his brow, his brow rings like a drawer full of big pennies. ~Claude Tillier (1801–1844), My Uncle Benjamin: A Humorous, Satirical, and Philosophical Novel, 1843, translated from the French by Benjamin R. Tucker, 1890
There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it. ~Will Rogers (1879–1935)
This disparity in living standards between the rich and the poor is as great a threat to peace as the arms race, and narrowing the gap is as imperative as arms control. ~Adlai Stevenson, in LIFE, "Eloquent Guides to America's National Purpose," 1960
I do try to be economical, but money slips through my fingers like water. ~W. Somerset Maugham, Lady Frederick, 1907
Money grubbing, late and early,
Till both heart and brain are sore;
But we buckle up our courage,
Grasping yet a little more;
And we cannot stay to notice
How the sun sets o'er the hill,
Hearts and brains and hands so busy
With the aim that keeps us still
Money grubbing.
~Lizzie Marshall Berry (1847–1919), "Money Grubbing," Heart Echoes: Original Miscellaneous and Devotional Poems, 1886
TIPS Wages we pay other people's hired help. ~Charles Wayland Towne, The Foolish Dictionary, Executed by Gideon Wurdz, Master of Pholly, Doctor of Loquacious Lunacy, etc., 1904
Say! did you ever make up your mind not to do any more tipping? And have you noticed how quickly you're forced to take the
In a Big Town nowadays tipping is as necessary as a traffic cop. Only by the aid of one or both can you make any progress or get anywhere. And the battle-cry in each case is "Hands up!"
It's so in this country
On the other side, across the Big Pond, if a hotel employee does you a little favor, and you slip him tuppence ha'penny, or a pfennig, he will smile back at you and be much obliged for five minutes.
But in this country if you tip anybody with a couple of pennies the chances are you'll wake up in the nearest hospital and find a kind-hearted nurse leaning over you, and whispering: "Keep calm, now; keep cool and calm! The doctor says you will recover everything except your watch, if he can find a small piece of the medulla oblongata which was removed from the northeastern part of your bean when the
It takes a brave man to save his money these days... ~George V. Hobart, "The Tipping Boobs," BOOBS: As Seen by John Henry, 1914
Hep Hardy is one of those reckless
Peaches and I dined with Hep, and he handed us a few lessons in the gentle pastime of tipping, he surely did. From the very moment we entered the aristocratic beanery he began the giving of alms.
The attendant at the revolving doors imprisoned a nice old lady in cell
A hall-boy, paging a missing husband, stopped short, as he saw our party approaching, arranged his face in imitation of a Spanish mackerel, saluted Hep, and received ten cents for his trouble...
Hep tossed a fifty-cent piece to the house detective, a quarter to the brass-buttoned janitor, and a few coins along with a bit of tax advice to the
Hep then delighted the head waiter with a Treasury note. One of his lieutenants who led us to our table stood there counting the spoons until Hep could find another pocket containing money. Then, clutching his share of the plunder, with many bows and obeisances, he faded out of our lives, and the omnibus began to splash water into our glasses. Hep got rid of him by staking him to enough money to enable his little brother to get through college, and thereafter for a period of ten or fifteen minutes Hep was permitted to breathe quietly, and his pocketbook enjoyed a much-needed rest.
Soon, however, another lieutenant rode up to our table to inquire if a waiter had taken our order. Hep told him no, but he couldn't believe it. He was firm in his disbelief until Hep gave him money, then he went joyously away. Presently the waiter arrived. One look at him, and I knew that Hep's desire to die poor but popular would be realized.
Every time Hep took a cigarette from his case, four eager waiters would dash forward, with lighted matches, and Hep, desiring to show no partiality, would slip a coin to each. One shark of a waiter swam around in the offing, and every time Hep's serviette dropped from his knees to the floor the shark would retrieve it, and, as he came to the surface with the serviette in his teeth, Hep would pat his head and reward him cheerfully.
It was one continuous orgy of tipping until finally we left.
There are guys like Hep in every Big Town, going through the night like a cyclone through the
Car sickness is the feeling some persons get when each month's installment comes due. ~The Speaker's Book of Illustrations by Herbert V. Prochnow, 1960
Small vices make the big leaks in modern incomes. ~"Poor Richard Junior's Philosophy," The Saturday Evening Post, 1903, George Horace Lorimer, editor
When your outgo exceeds your income your upkeep is your downfall. ~Author unknown, c.1945 [barrypopik.com]
My piggy bank broke, and now it's spent
I can't think where all of my money went...
~Harry Behn (1898–1973), "Shopping Spree," Windy Morning: Poems and Pictures, 1953
MONEY A disease of very peculiar symptoms. Those who have it seem to have no complaint at all and those who don't have it, have a great deal. ~Charles Wayland Towne, The Altogether New Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz, 1914
I quake for very fear when I think on it; for I assure you, few will escape this disease, which Averroes calls lack of money... ~François Rabelais (c.1494–1553), "The Most Certain, True, and Infallible Pantagruelian Prognostication for the Year that is to Come, For Ever and Aye, Calculated for the Benefit and Noddification of the Giddy-Brained and Weather-Wise
He never learned what V. Pierpont did with the remainder of his ten thousand. He can only hope that Pierpont used it magnificently to cure some poor soul afflicted with what
Money talks — but the lack of it is a good grumbler. ~"Poor Richard Junior's Philosophy," The Saturday Evening Post, 1906, George Horace Lorimer, editor
When money talks it often merely remarks
Money is like water: in sufficient volume, it erodes the bedrock of principle, and cuts its own channel. ~Dr. Idel Dreimer, lumpenbangenpiano.com
Why will a man say that he cannot meet expenses while he meets them every time he turns around? ~Author unknown, c.1920
"I'm opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position."
"You'd take it?"
"I would leave the funeral of my dearest enemy to go and assume its burdens and responsibilities."
~Mark Twain, The American Claimant
Though a man be worth millions, he can enjoy no more of life's blessings than his necessities require; any accumulation of wealth beyond these partake of theft from God and his fellowman. ~James Lendall Basford (1845–1915), Sparks from the Philosopher's Stone, 1882
There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money either. ~Robert Graves, c.1950s
How to get RICH? 1st, make more; 2nd, spend less. ~Josh Billings, revised by H. Montague
Living within your income eliminates worry and a great many other things. ~Arnold H. Glasow (1905–1999)
A fool and his money are very attached. ~Student at Brookside School, Long Island, 1966, completing the first part of the proverb as given by Candid Camera, CBS
Money is a needful and precious thing—and, when well used, a noble thing—but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for. I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace. ~Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, "Meg Goes to Vanity Fair," 1868
When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble. ~Edward Abbey, Vox Clamantis in Deserto, 1989
Take care of the pennies and the safe deposit companies will take care of everything else. ~"Poor Richard Junior's Philosophy," The Saturday Evening Post, 1903, George Horace Lorimer, editor
Why is it a penny for your thoughts but you have to put your two cents in? Somebody's making a penny. ~Steven Wright, A Steven Wright Special, 1985, stevenwright.com
This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy. ~Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
A man who has too much money creates forgers and thieves about him, — he cannot expect to meet with honesty. ~Marie Corelli (Mary Mills Mackay)
I would fulfill my wildest dream of material possessions, that I might hear my soul wailing through marble halls. ~Muriel Strode (1875–1964), My Little Book of Life, 1912
The "line of beauty" is a curve something like the letter S, but it attracts more attention when it has a parallel line drawn through it,
One of the joys of wealth is the right to preach the virtues of poverty. ~"Poor Richard Junior's Philosophy," The Saturday Evening Post, 1906, George Horace Lorimer, editor
A modern miracle is the building of a house within the original estimates. ~"Poor Richard Junior's Philosophy," The Saturday Evening Post, 1904, George Horace Lorimer, editor
In spite of spelling reform, success still ends in $$. ~"Poor Richard Junior's Philosophy," The Saturday Evening Post, 1906, George Horace Lorimer, editor
A full purse makes disagreeable men, and even knaves, tolerable in society. ~James Lendall Basford (1845–1915), Sparks from the Philosopher's Stone, 1882
A good story is being told of a prominent credit man for a New York hat house which runs thus: A Philadelphia magazine having offered a prize for the best answer to the question "Which are the four sweetest words in the English language?" our friend the credit man secured the prize by sending in a slip on which he wrote these words: "Enclosed please find check." ~The American Hatter, 1903
I love to get letters
But the sweetest, by heck,
Are the ones that begin with:
"Inclosed please find check."
~Milwaukee Sentinel, 1906
"Inclosed find check!" The sweetest words that e'er outclassed the song of birds!... When sad and tired and short of kale, a letter comes by morning mail... The sun is once more cutting hay, the gloomy clouds are blown away, the world is glad that was a wreck, changed by the words, "Inclosed find check." ~Walt Mason (1862–1939), "Sweetest Words"
Riches may not bring happiness but they enable one to send a carriage for it. ~"Poor Richard Junior's Philosophy," The Saturday Evening Post, 1903, George Horace Lorimer, editor
The trouble with spending all your time acquiring wealth is that you never get wealthy enough to buy back your time. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
BORROW to swap hot air for cold coin. ~Charles Wayland Towne, The Foolish Dictionary, Executed by Gideon Wurdz, Master of Pholly, Doctor of Loquacious Lunacy, etc., 1904
A banknote's beauty depends upon its figure. ~"Poor Richard Junior's Philosophy," The Saturday Evening Post, 1903, George Horace Lorimer, editor
I will scourge the money-changers out of the temples of my life. ~Muriel Strode (1875–1964), "A Soul's Faring: LVIII," A Soul's Faring, 1921
The difference between necessities and luxuries is generally measured by the pocketbook. ~Mary Wilson Little, Reveries of a Paragrapher, 1897
Gold is the color that predominates throughout the pages of all history. ~James Lendall Basford (1845–1915), Sparks from the Philosopher's Stone, 1882
Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell. ~J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, 1951
Gold.— Dead earth, for which many men sacrifice life and lose heaven. ~"Specimens of a Patent Pocket Dictionary, For the use of those who wish to understand the meaning of things as well as words," The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, 1824
Stan, don't you know the first law of physics? Anything that's fun costs at least eight dollars. ~South Park, "Trapped in the Closet," 2005, written by Trey Parker & Kenny Hotz [S9, E12
PHILANTHROPIST One who returns to the people publicly a small percentage of the wealth he steals from them privately. ~Charles Wayland Towne, The Foolish Dictionary, Executed by Gideon Wurdz, Master of Pholly, Doctor of Loquacious Lunacy, etc., 1904
Always borrow money from a pessimist... He never expects to be paid back. ~Buffalo Express, 1910
Of all the divers brands of joy that make our journey sunny, of all the bliss without alloy, there's none like spending money. It's well to put away a wad, against the rainy weather; it's well, when hard times are abroad, to have some coins together. But when you've salted down a roll of sesterces and talents, then, to invigorate your soul, go out and blow the balance. Don't let the saving habit grow, until you are a miser; salt down a part, a portion blow—that policy's the wiser. I like to toddle to the bank and put some bones in pickle; I like to save, but I'm no crank on saving every nickel. I like to take the extra plunk, and to the mart go flying, and buy a lot of useless junk, just for the sake of buying. ~Walt Mason
When a feller says, "It hain't th' money but th' principle o' th' thing," it's th' money. ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard, The Indianapolis News and Abe Martin's Sayings and Velma's Vow, 1916
Your friend lends and your enemy asks payment. ~Dutch Proverb
You have to be clever to live within your income, but you must be cleverer to live without it. ~"Poor Richard Junior's Philosophy," The Saturday Evening Post, 1909, George Horace Lorimer, editor
Never buy a what you do not want, because it is cheap... ~Thomas Jefferson, 1825
Count often the probable days of your life, and more seldom will you count your dollars and cents. ~James Lendall Basford (1845–1915), Sparks from the Philosopher's Stone, 1882 [Could be a great retirement savings advert.
Wall Street is a very small thoroughfare, but it is not a straight and narrow path. ~"Poor Richard Junior's Philosophy," The Saturday Evening Post, 1903, George Horace Lorimer, editor
...Why are our days a dusk
Of toil among fierce engines? Why are our bodies torn
By the vast angry wheels? Why are our homes the home
Of poverty and hunger? Why are the fruits of toil,
Our toil, thus taken from us to feed your luxury?
We lack the bread of life: your wealth o'erflows the earth.
To make your pleasant hours, our thousand days are slain.
Ye squander for a fancy,—a moment's bubble-joy,—
Enough to make our desolate age secure and bright.
Wherefore are all these things? Do ye indeed inherit
From God some higher right to live in happiness?...
Lo, ye have raised high walls, and set us apart from you...
~Arthur Davison Ficke, The Breaking of Bonds: A Drama of the Social Unrest, 1910 [the men who labor, said to the labor masters
And that brings us back to this graph and this distribution of our life. I accumulated a lot of money when I think about it. When you think and you say, now is the time to give back — well, if you're giving back, you took too much.... [M]y financial advisor in New York, he says, look, you're a silly guy because you would have 4.1 times more money today if you had made money with money instead of sharing as you go. But I like sharing as you go better. ~Ricardo Semler, "How to run a company with (almost) no rules," TEDGlobal, October 2014
Sermons on the dangers of wealth are not intended to discourage the collection plate. ~"Poor Richard Junior's Philosophy," The Saturday Evening Post, 1906, George Horace Lorimer, editor
When Gold argues the cause, eloquence is impotent. ~Publilius Syrus, 1st century BCE, from the Latin by D. Lyman, 1856
Aunt Betsey made a bad bargain when she exchanged her girlish aspirations for a man whose soul was in his pocket. ~Louisa May Alcott, "Christie," Work: A Story of Experience, 1873
WEALTH. Any income that is at least $100 more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband. ~H. L. Mencken ~H. L. Mencken
The three greatest BLESSINGS in this life are a clear conscience, a devoted wife and a little ready money. ~Josh Billings, revised by H. Montague
Money that is obtained without effort is spent without conscience. ~Dr. Idel Dreimer, lumpenbangenpiano.com
Extravagance is your neighbor's method of spending money. ~"Poor Richard Junior's Philosophy," The Saturday Evening Post, 1903, George Horace Lorimer, editor
The world turns on a dime, the same now as it always has — which is to say, money makes the world go 'round. It's also what makes the world go spinning out of control. ~Joe Murray, "History updates current events," Spartanburg Herald-Journal, May 10th 1992
...this country is bigger than Wall Street, and if they don't believe it, I show 'em the map. ~Will Rogers, 1929
Blind is he as any Bat that flitters
Who can only see the Thing that Glitters.
~Arthur Guiterman, "Of Wealth," A Poet's Proverbs, 1924
A frog would leap from a throne of gold into a puddle. ~Publilius Syrus, 1st century BCE, from the Latin by D. Lyman, 1856
The little money I have — that is my wealth, but the things I have for which I would not take money, that is my treasure. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us;
The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in,
The priest hath his fee who comes and shrives us,
We bargain for the graves we lie in;
Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold...
'T is heaven alone that is given away,
'T is only God may be had for the asking;
There is no price set on the lavish summer,
And June may be had by the poorest comer.
~James Russell Lowell, The Vision of Sir Launfal
There's more fun running after the dollar than sitting on it. ~"Poor Richard Junior's Philosophy," The Saturday Evening Post, 1906, George Horace Lorimer, editor
But before they had reached the corner of the lane, the man came running after them, and pressing her hand, left something in it — two old, battered, smoke-encrusted penny pieces. Who knows but they shone as brightly in the eyes of angels as golden gifts that have been chronicled on tombs? ~Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
A penny sav'd, is a penny got— He that hath money in his purse won't want a head on his shoulders. Rome was not built in a day— Fortunes are made by degrees— Pains to get, care to keep, and fear to lose— He that lies in bed, his estate feels it. The old curmudgeon thinks nothing mean that brings in an honest penny. Love your neighbour, but don't pull down your hedge. Friendship has nothing to do with trade. Charity begins at home. A fool and his money are soon parted. Too many eggs in one basket... ~Arthur Murphy, The Citizen, c.1760 [a little altered; a fun little collage of sayings, thought I to myself — of course, it's funnier in the play, where they're said singly amongst the older Philpot's egotistical remarks
Any fool can spend money; some fools can make it; but the fool who can make and keep it cheats folly and becomes wise. ~"Poor Richard Junior's Philosophy," The Saturday Evening Post, George Horace Lorimer, editor, as reprinted in Poor Richard Jr's Almanack, 1906
I wonder now if you ever remember...
Whether your June is all turned to December...
Gone are those winters of chats and of dances...
Gone the aroma of life's young romances...
Ah! well enough, as you dance on in joyance...
Fashion and riches will mask much annoyance...
~Christopher Pearse Cranch, "Marion Dale"
OCTOBER: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The other are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February. ~Mark Twain
If I had her money, I'd be richer than she is. ~From the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1961, screenplay by George Axelrod, based on the novella by Truman Capote, spoken by the character Holly Golightly
...he that wants money, means, and content, is without three good friends... ~William Shakespeare, As You Like It, c.1599 [III, 2, Corin]
Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds shillings and pence. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
There's a magic sound in the chink of gold
To the devotee of fashion,
A cloak for sin, however bold,
And a cure for the wrongs of passion.
You may knock in vain at the door of wealth,
If you haven't a golden key,
But the hinge gives way if you can but say—
Society's £ S. D.
~Lizzie Marshall Berry (1847–1919), "£ S. D.," Heart Echoes: Original Miscellaneous and Devotional Poems, 1886
You may wear your vice like a suit of clothes,
As whimsical fancy dances;
You may pick fond hearts as you pick a rose,
If you've only enough finances.
You must love your neighbour as yourself,
As you sail on the social sea,
Unless you float in a golden boat,
With a rudder of £ S. D.
~Lizzie Marshall Berry (1847–1919), "£ S. D.," Heart Echoes: Original Miscellaneous and Devotional Poems, 1886
'Tis a noble thing while you can but sing
To the jingle of £ S. D.
~Lizzie Marshall Berry (1847–1919), "£ S. D.," Heart Echoes: Original Miscellaneous and Devotional Poems, 1886
You may open hearts with a banking book,
And dazzle the brightest eyes;
You may catch your loves in a golden web,
As a spider catches flies;
You may meet the ends of offended law,
And laugh at the "powers that be,"
If you can but say, as you bounce away,
You've the password of £ S. D.
~Lizzie Marshall Berry (1847–1919), "£ S. D.," Heart Echoes: Original Miscellaneous and Devotional Poems, 1886
Somehow or other, our hearts have got lost
In a foliage of reckonings intricate and dense,
And we count up results, and we reckon the cost,
For the pulse of the world is pounds, shillings and pence...
And we drown our best feelings or scatter them hence,
While the tide of commotion is whirling and flowing
To the musical click of pounds, shillings and pence...
So we say the world grasps, and we learn to grasp, too,
To rake for large profits and mourn at expense;
Though there's much in our midst that is honest and true,
Yet the pulse of the world is pounds, shillings and pence.
~Lizzie Marshall Berry (1847–1919), "Pounds, Shillings and Pence," Day Dreams: A Collection of Miscellaneous Poems, 1893
A little satisfies the poor, while the rich never cease their longings. ~James Lendall Basford (1845–1915), Sparks from the Philosopher's Stone, 1882
How quickly nature falls into revolt
When gold becomes her object!
For this the foolish over-careful fathers
Have broke their sleep with thoughts,
Their brains with care, their bones with industry...
~William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part II, c.1597 [IV, 5, Henry IV]
Suburbs — where the houses are farther apart and the payments closer together. ~Arnold H. Glasow (1905–1999)
The universe is merely a fleeting idea in God's mind — a pretty uncomfortable thought, particularly if you've just made a down payment on a house. ~Woody Allen
People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage. ~Doug Larson, United Feature Syndicate, as quoted by The Reader's Digest, 1992
Sometimes I think that all mankind
exist but to be bought and sold:
The rich man's paramour is gold,
the poor man's goddess, gold, gold, gold.
~Frederic Ridgely Torrence, The House of a Hundred Lights: A Psalm of Experience After Reading a Couplet of Bidpai, 1899
Save the pennies and the dollars will not have to be broken for street-car fares. ~"Poor Richard Junior's Philosophy," The Saturday Evening Post, 1903, George Horace Lorimer, editor
The Millionaire is Needy, I am not;
For I need Nothing while he needs a Lot.
Shall he be held the Richer of the Two
Whose Wealth is great — or he whose Wants are few?
~Arthur Guiterman, "Of Wealth," A Poet's Proverbs, 1924
Hard to bear is the poverty which follows a bad use of riches. ~Publilius Syrus, 1st century BCE, from the Latin by D. Lyman, 1856
Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Foul-cankering rust the hidden treasure frets,
But gold that's put to use more gold begets.
~William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis
A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety and nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stocks snuggles into your heart in the same way. ~Mark Twain (at Bayreuth)
A penny saved is an example to the other ninety-nine cents. ~"Poor Richard Junior's Philosophy," The Saturday Evening Post, 1904, George Horace Lorimer, editor
KATRIN. Mama… have you had a very hard life?
MAMA. Hard? No. No life is easy all the time. It is not meant to be.
KATRIN. But… rich people… aren't their lives easy?
MAMA. I don't know, Katrin. I have never known any rich people. But I see them sometimes in stores and in the streets, and they do not look as if they were easy.
KATRIN. Wouldn't you like to be rich?
MAMA. I would like to be rich the way I would like to be ten feet high. Would be good for some things — bad for others.
~John Van Druten, I Remember Mama, 1944, a play in two acts, acting edition, adapted from Kathryn Forbes, Mama's Bank Account, 1943
Be your money's master, not its slave. ~Publilius Syrus, 1st century BCE, from the Latin by D. Lyman, 1856
It is natural that affluence should be followed by influence. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
He never clipped a coupon for he never owned a stock;
He never had a bank account—not even in a sock;
He never was mistaken for a putter-by of wealth—
His int'rest came in sunshine and his dividends in health.
~Author unknown, "The Happy Investor," 1914
I hire everything. I hire water, heat, light. I hire tea by the teabag. I've lived here for ten years now and nothing is mine. ~Martin Amis, Money: A Suicide Note, 1984
Life Insurance is a legalized Hold-up at the point of a premium, "Your money for your Life." ~Gideon Wurdz (Charles Wayland Towne), Foolish Finance, 1905
No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. ~Henry Ward Beecher
Ninety-Nine is a famous number
for at the market the seller knows
he is so very much more popular
than his bigger brother The Dollar!
~Terri Guillemets, "99¢," 2001
Nature gives the poor an appetite that they may like what they eat. The rich do not need one as they can eat what they like. ~"Poor Richard Junior's Philosophy," The Saturday Evening Post, 1903, George Horace Lorimer, editor
Money is a headache, and money is the cure. ~Terri Guillemets
Life is legal tender, and individual character stamps its value. We are from a thousand mints, and all genuine... And of the two dangers of hoarding and spending, the former seems a thousand times more imminent and appalling. ~Louise Imogen Guiney, "On Dying Considered as a Dramatic Situation," Patrins, to which is added An Inquirendo Into the Wit & Other Good Parts of His Late Majesty King Charles the Second, 1897
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