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Wealth and Poverty

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Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (212 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.

[aphorist] George Bernard Shaw, in [category] Wealth and Poverty

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (137 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

[aphorist] Frank Lloyd Wright, in [category] Wealth and Poverty

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (200 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

When the rich make war it's the poor that die.

[aphorist] Jean-Paul Sartre, in [category] War and Peace and [category] Wealth and Poverty

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (685 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 2003)

All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.

[aphorist] Spike Milligan, in [category] Wealth and Poverty

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (688 ratings)  ·  submitted 1998 (updated 1999)

Some of the worst torments imaginable accompany wealth. And yet many a poor man is eager for preferment and dreams of somehow "improving" his estate. Where money and property are concerned, none but vagrants are wise.

[aphorist] Christopher Spranger, The Effort to Fall, in [category] Wealth and Poverty

The Effort to Fall (paperback)

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (714 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1999)

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

[aphorist] William Shakespeare, Henry VI, in [category] Wealth and Poverty

Henry VI (paperback)

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (1096 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1999)  · 

Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.

[aphorist] Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in [category] Love and Hate and [category] Wealth and Poverty

The College Blue Book (data CD)

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (956 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1999)

Figure it out. Work a lifetime to pay off a house. You finally own it and there's no one to live in it.

[aphorist] Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman, in [category] Life and Death and [category] Wealth and Poverty

Death of a Salesman (paperback)

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (756 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1999)

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

[aphorist] Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in [category] Wealth and Poverty

The Devil's Dictionary (paperback)

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (943 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999

Alas, fortune does not change men; it unmasks them.

[aphorist] Stephen T. Steve, in [category] Vice and Virtue and [category] Wealth and Poverty

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (690 ratings)  ·  submitted 1998 by [user] nthomas

The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Wealth and Poverty

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (686 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

[aphorist] Woody Allen, in [category] Wealth and Poverty

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (737 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

[aphorist] Bill Anderson, (from the song "Poor Folks"), in [category] Wealth and Poverty

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (735 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

[aphorist] Jane Austen, in [category] Wealth and Poverty

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (748 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

A young man with good health and a poor appetite can save up money.

[aphorist] James Montgomery Bailey, in [category] Wealth and Poverty

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (771 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Behind every great fortune, there is a crime.

[aphorist] HonorĂ© de Balzac, in [category] Wealth and Poverty

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (744 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.

[aphorist] William Cowper, in [category] Law and Politics and [category] Wealth and Poverty

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (704 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

It is odd, is it not, that a person's worth to society is measured by their wealth, when instead their wealth should be measured by their worth to society.

[aphorist] A. Cygni, in [category] Law and Politics and [category] Wealth and Poverty

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (2946 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need money the most, are the very ones that never have it.

[aphorist] Finley Peter Dunne, in [category] Wealth and Poverty

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (2664 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Money is like an arm or leg: use it or lose it.

[aphorist] Henry Ford, in [category] Wealth and Poverty

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