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MONEY
Cash, Wealth and Riches
1. Essence
1994 Money is just what we use to keep tally.
Henry Ford (1863-1947)
1995 Money is the god of our time.
Heine (1797-1856)
1996 Money is human happiness in the abstract.
Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
1997 Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
1998 Riches are the savings of many in the hands of one.
Eugene Debs (1855-1926)
1999 A foundation is a large body of money
completely surrounded by people who want some.
Dwight MacDonald (1906-1982)
2000 Money is the poor people's credit card.
Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
2. Opposites
2001 A light purse is a heavy curse.
Franklin (1706-1790)
Poor Richard's Almanac
2002 Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P. T. Barnum (1810-1891)
2003 With money one may command devils;
without it one cannot even summon a man.
Chinese Proverb
2004 If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free;
if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
Burke (1729-1797)
2005 To have money is to be virtuous, honest, beautiful and
witty. And to be without it is to be ugly, boring, stupid
and useless.
Jean Giraudoux (1882-1944)
2006 Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil,
the sum of blessings.
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
2007 Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's
greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest
source of anxiety.
John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)
2008 Rich people are just poor people with money.
Sister Mary Tricky
2009 You can live well if you're rich and you can live well if
you're poor, but if you're poor, it's much cheaper.
Andrew Tobias (b. 1947)
2010 If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace,
no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you
dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant
relatives.
Chinese Proverb
"Quotable Business," edited by Louis E. Boone
2011 Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say.
But I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
Jack Paar (b. 1918)
2012 Not he who has little, but he who wishes more, is poor.
Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)
2013 It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary
that money should love you.
Baron Rothschild (1840-1915)
2014 Money is like promises - easier made than kept.
Josh Billings (1815-1885)
Josh Billings: His Book
2015 Getting money is like digging with a needle.
Spending it is like water soaking into sand.
Japanese Proverb
2016 To acquire wealth is not easy, yet to keep it is even more
difficult... It is said that wealth is like a viper which is
harmless if a man know how to take hold of it; but, if he
does not, it will twine around his hand and bite him.
Frank K. Houston
2017 Money - in its absence we are coarse;
in its presence we are vulgar.
Mignon McLaughlin (b. 1918)
2018 The trouble with today's economy is that when a man is rich,
it's all on paper. When he's broke, it's cash.
Sam Marconi
2019 Gresham's Law: Bad money drives out good money.
Thomas Gresham (1519-1579)
2020 Money is always there but the pockets change;
it is not in the same pockets after a change,
and that is all there is to say about money.
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)
3. Insight
2021 Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
Franklin (1706-1790)
2022 A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.
Mohammed (570-632 A.D.)
2023 People's wealth and worth are very rarely related.
Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990)
2024 Money has little value to its possessor unless it also has
value to others.
Leland Stanford (1824-1893)
2025 The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in
a world in which it is overestimated.
H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
2026 The only people who claim that money is not important are
people who have enough money so that they are relieved of
the ugly burden of thinking about it.
Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)
2027 Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex. You thought of
nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other
things if you did.
James Baldwin (1924-1987)
2028 To rail at money, to wax indignant against it, is silly.
Money is nothing; its power is purely symbolical. Money is
the sign of liberty. To curse money is to curse liberty -
to curse life, which is nothing, if it be not free.
Remy de Gourmont (1858-1915)
2029 Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
Aphra Behn (1640-1689)
The Rover
2030 Money is an article which may be used as a universal
passport to everywhere except Heaven, and as a universal
provider of everything but happiness.
Wall Street Journal
2031 Money can't buy happiness but it will get you a better class
of memories.
Ronald Reagan (born 1911)
2032 Just pretending to be rich keeps some people poor.
Anonymous
2033 If you can actually count your money, then you are not
really a rich man.
J. Paul Getty (1892-1976)
2034 Life is short and so is money.
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)
2035 The injury of prodigality leads to this, that he that will
not economize will have to agonize.
Confucius (B.C. 551-479)
2036 Money is round. It rolls away.
Sholem Aleichem (1859-1916)
2037 Money is flat and meant to be piled up.
Scottish Proverb
2038 I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of
mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation.
Mike Todd (1907-1958)
Newsweek
2039 It is not the volume of money but the activity of money that
counts.
W. Bourke Cockran
Speech
2040 I do everything for a reason, most of the time the reason is
money.
Suzy Parker (b. 1933)
2041 Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself.
All depends on the skill of the spender.
Emerson (1803-1882)
The Young American
2042 Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a
large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughan (1915-1977)
2043 Whoever said money can't buy happiness
didn't know where to shop.
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)
2044 Money alone is only a means; it presupposes a man to use it.
The rich man can go where he pleases, but perhaps please
himself nowhere. He can buy a library or visit the whole
world, but perhaps has neither patience to read nor
intelligence to see... The purse may be full and the heart
empty. He may have gained the world and lost himself; and
with all his wealth around him... he may live as blank a
life as any tattered ditcher.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1895)
2045 Where money talks, there are few interruptions.
Herbert V. Prochnow (b. 1897)
2046 That money talks
I'll not deny,
I heard it once:
It said, "Goodbye."
Richard Armour (1906-1989)
2047 Lampis the shipowner, on being asked how he acquired his
great wealth, replied, "My great wealth was acquired with no
difficulty, but my small wealth, my first gains, with much
labor."
Epictetus (c. 55-135 A.D.)
4. Positive
2048 There is no fortress so strong that money cannot take it.
Cicero (B.C. 106-4)
2049 No man will take counsel, but every man will take money;
therefore, money is better than counsel.
Swift (1667-1745)
2050 Money alone sets all the world in motion.
Publilius Syrus (fl. B.C. 42)
Maxims
2051 The sovereign queen of all delights -
for her the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.
Richard Barnfield (1574-1627)
2052 Bing Crosby was asked by a TV interviewer why he had such a
calm, unruffled demeanor. Reaching into his pocket, Bing
pulled out a tremendous wad of bills. "That helps!" he
replied.
Bing Crosby (1903-1977)
2053 With money in your pocket, you are wise, and you are
handsome, and you sing well too.
Jewish Proverb
2054 Saving is a very fine thing. Especially when your parents
have done it for you.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
2055 You never find people laboring to convince you that you may
live very happily upon a plentiful income.
Johnson (1709-1784)
2056 Money can't buy happiness... But then, happiness can't buy
government-insured C.D.'s
David Addison
"Moonlighting"
2057 I'm tired of Love,
I'm still more tired of Rhyme,
But money gives me pleasure
all the time.
Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953)
2058 I've been rich and I've been poor; rich is better.
Sophie Tucker (1884-1966)
2059 Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which
millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
Rex Stout (1866-1975)
2060 Money is the only substance which can keep a cold world from
nicknaming a citizen "Hey, you!"
Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)
2061 Nouveau is Better than No Riche at All.
Monsieur Marc
2062 Riches cover a multitude of woes.
Menander (B.C. 342-291)
Fragment 90
2063 The use of money is all the advantage there is in having
money.
Franklin (1706-1790)
2064 Nothing links man to man like the frequent passage from hand
to hand of cash.
Walter Sickert (1860-1942)
2065 If all the rich men in the world divided up their money
amongst themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go round.
Christina Stead
Quoted in "Money Talks" by Robert W. Kent
2066 Most of the rich people I've known have been fairly
miserable.
Agatha Christie (1890-1976)
2067 There is a burden of care in getting riches;
fear in keeping them; temptation in using them;
guilt in abusing them, sorrow in losing them;
and a burden of account at last to be given concerning them.
Matthew Henry (1662-1714)
5. Negative
2068 If a man runs after money, he's money-mad; if he keeps it,
he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he
doesn't get it, he's a ne'er-do-well; if he doesn't try to
get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working
for it, he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a
lifetime of hard work, people call him a fool who never got
anything out of life.
Vic Oliver (1898-1964)
2069 Worldly riches are like nuts; many clothes are torn getting
them, many a tooth broke in cracking them, but never a belly
filled with eating them.
Ralph Venning
2070 A man without money is like a wolf without teeth.
French Proverb
"A Treasury of Business Quotations," by Michael Thomsett
2071 The lack of money is the root of all evil.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
2072 I got what no millionaire's got, I got no money.
Gerald F. Lieberman (1923-1986)
2073 I've got all the money I'll ever need if I die by four
o'clock.
Henny Youngman (b. 1906)
2074 The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.
John Foster (1770-1843)
2075 One of the penalties of wealth is that the older you grow,
the more people there are in the world who would rather have
you dead than alive.
C.H.B. Kitchin
2076 If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you
to the other world?
Franklin (1706-1790)
2077 True, you can't take it with you, but then that's not the
place where it comes in so handy.
Brendon Francis
2078 The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them
worry about losing it.
Antoine de Rivaroli (1753-1801)
2079 Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches,
but they mean the riches possessed by other men.
Charles Caleb Colton (c. 1780-1832)
2080 Money swore an oath that nobody who did not love it should
ever have it.
Irish Proverb
2081 Money is not an aphrodisiac; the desire it may kindle in the
female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.
Marya Mannes (b. 1904)
2082 What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the
morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does
what he wants to.
Bob Dylan (b. 1941)
2083 It's possible to own too much. A man with one watch knows
what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure.
Lee Segall (b. 1905)
2084 Many people take no care of their money till they come
nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with
their time.
Goethe (1749-1832)
2085 Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single
want - the want of money.
Zimmermann
"Forbes Scrapbook of Thoughts on the Business of Life"
2086 Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money
not scarce?
Emerson (1803-1882)
Work and Days
2087 When a man says money can do anything, that settles it;
he hasn't any.
Edgar W. Howe (1853-1937)
2088 Organized crime inevitably gravitates to cash.
Daniel Seligman
Fortune
2089 Why rob banks? That's where the money is.
Willie Sutton (1901-1980)
2090 The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your
time.
William De Kooning (b. 1904)
6. Advice
2091 Remember, that TIME is money...Remember, that CREDIT is
money...Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating
nature...Remember this saying, THE GOOD PAYER IS LORD OF
ANOTHER MAN'S PURSE. He that is known to pay punctually and
exactly to the time he promises, may at any time, and on any
occasion, raise all the money his friends can spare...In
short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as
the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words,
INDUSTRY and FRUGALITY; that is, waste neither TIME nor
MONEY, but make the best use of both.
Franklin (1706-1790)
2092 Little to little added, if oft done,
In small time makes a good possession.
Hesiod (B.C. 800?)
Works and Days
2093 It is simple, although not easy, to become a millionaire.
Get a part-time job on Saturdays and do it for 10 years.
Then take that money and invest it at 12 percent, wait 10
years, and you're a millionaire. However, most people don't
want to give up their free time for 10 years. I've been
working Saturdays since I was 16.
Dr. Jerry Buss (b. 1933)
2094 Save a part of your income and begin now, for the man with a
surplus controls circumstances and the man without a surplus
is controlled by circumstances.
Henry H. Buckley
2095 It's good to have money and the things that money can buy,
but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make
sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.
George H. Lorimer (1867-1937)
2096 It is better to live rich than to die rich.
Johnson (1709-1784)
2097 Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in
having few wants.
Epicurus (B.C. 341-270)
2098 Dollars do better if they are accompanied by sense.
Earl Riney (1885-1955)
2099 Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to
trust nobody.
Agatha Christie (1890-1976)
2100 Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
7. Poetry & Prose
2101 Money was made not to command our will,
But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill.
Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey;
The horse doth with the horseman run away.
Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)
Imitations - Tenth Epistle of Horace
2102 Can wealth give happiness? Look round and see
What gay distress! What splendid misery!
Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour,
The mind annihilates, and calls for more.
Young (1683-1765)
Love of Fame, Satire V
2103 If happiness on wealth were built,
Rich rogues might comfort find in guilt.
As grows the miser's hoarded store,
His fears, his wants, increase the more.
Gay (1688-1732)
Fables
2104 Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never
large enough to cover.
Emerson (1803-1882)
Wealth
2105 Why lose we life in anxious cares,
To lay in hoards for future years?
Can these, when tortur'd by disease,
Cheer our sick hearts, or purchase ease?
Can these prolong one gasp of breath,
Or calm the troubled hour of death?
Gay (1688-1732)
Fables
2106 To purchase heaven has gold the power?
Can gold remove the mortal hour?
In life can love be bought with gold?
Are friendship's pleasures to be sold?
No - all that's worth a wish - a thought -
Fair virtue gives, unbrib'd, unbought.
Cease then on trash thy hopes to bind
Let nobler views engage thy mind.
Johnson (1709-1784)
2107 Ill fares the land
To hastening ills a prey
When wealth accumulates
But men decay.
Goldsmith (1728-1774)
2108 Trade it may help, society extend,
But lures the Pirate, and corrupts the friend:
It raises armies in a nation's aid,
But bribes a senate, and the land's betray'd.
Pope (1688-1744)
Moral Essays
2109 If thou are rich, thou art poor;
For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows,
Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey,
And death unloads thee.
Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Measure for Measure, Act III
2110 O money, money, how blindly thou hast been worshiped,
and how stupidly abused!
Charles Lamb (1775-1834)
Letter
2111 Never ask of money spent
Where the spender thinks it went.
Nobody was ever meant
To remember or invent
What he did with every cent.
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
The Hardship of Accounting
2112 I've always wonder why it's so,
That money never lingers.
Now I know why it's called "dough,"
It sticks to other's fingers.
Rolf B. White (b. 1932)
2113 Money is honey, my little sonny,
And a rich man's joke is always funny.
Thomas Edward Brown (1830-1897)
The Doctor
8. Jokes & Humor
2114 Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's, I mean.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
2115 I started out with nothing. I still have most of it.
Michael Davis
"Tonight Show"
2116 He was so broke he couldn't even pay attention.
American Saying
2117 It doesn't matter if you're rich or poor,
as long as you've got money.
Joe E. Lewis (1902-1971)
2118 I have enough money to last me the rest of my life,
unless I buy something.
Jackie Mason (b. 1931)
2119 I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be
said to be living apart.
e. e. cummings (1894-1962)
2120 They say "money talks." Unfortunately, when it hears my
name it says, "Who?"
2121 Money doesn't talk these days. It goes without saying.
2122 "Just burned a hundred dollar bill."
"You must be a millionaire."
"Well, it's easier to burn 'em than to pay 'em."
2123 Some people pay their bills when due,
some when they're overdue,
and some never do.
2124 Nowadays, people can be divided into three classes - the
Haves, the Have-Nots, and the Have-Not-Paid-for-What-They-
Haves.
Earl Wilson (1907-1987)
2125 The only thing I like about rich people is their money.
Nancy Astor (1879-1964)
2126 Keep company with the very rich and you'll end up picking up
the check.
Stanley Walker
2127 Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten
million dollars are no happier than people with nine million
dollar.
Hobart Brown
2128 George Raft earned and disposed of about ten million dollars
in the course of his career. "Part of the loot went for
gambling," he explained, "part for horses, and part for
women. The rest I spent foolishly."
George Raft (1895-1980)
2129 I'm opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to
offer me the position.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
2130 Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Woody Allen (b. 1935)
2131 A fund raiser tried to persuade Hollywood movie producer
Louis B.Mayer to give money to a charity. "You know you
can't take it with you."
"If I can't take it with me," said Mayer, "I won't go."
Louis B. Mayer (1885-1957)
2132 If the rich could hire other people to die for them,
the poor could make a wonderful living.
Yiddish Proverb
2133 The only way to survive in today's business world is to have
an M.B.A. - a Massive Bank Account.
2134 He made his money the really old-fashioned way.
He inherited it.
A. J. Carothers
2135 My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net
income.
Errol Flynn (1909-1959)
2136 Money isn't everything: usually it isn't even enough.
Anonymous
2137 If money is a curse, my wallet is rated G.
2138 There are many in this old world of ours who hold that we
all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in summer-
time and the poor get it in winter.
Anonymous
2139 Americans are getting stronger. Twenty years ago, it took
two people to carry ten dollars worth of groceries. Today,
a five-year-old can do it.
Henny Youngman (b. 1906)
2140 Growing up is that slow, painful transition
from praying that your face will clear
to praying that your check will clear.
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