Wealth and Poverty
49 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/i9vof3d6 · submitted 1997
A budget is just a method of worrying before you spend money, as well as afterward.
tiny.ag/is34lohk · submitted 1997
A banker will lend you money only if you can prove you don't need it.
tiny.ag/qy3grjnv · submitted 1997
You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
tiny.ag/cybvcjri · submitted 1997
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he is buying.
tiny.ag/cz2awrgd · submitted 1997
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
tiny.ag/bs6fhkpv · submitted 1997
Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
tiny.ag/cpyfxowq · submitted 1997
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, the other is getting it.
tiny.ag/frswba1z · submitted 1997
He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
tiny.ag/fvxbdltz · submitted 1997
I'm opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
tiny.ag/japbfdwv · submitted 1997
Having nothing, nothing can he lose.
William Shakespeare, Henry VI, in Wealth and Poverty
tiny.ag/ahgswdqq · submitted 1999
Alas, fortune does not change men; it unmasks them.
tiny.ag/gpgnitbr · submitted 1997
What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.
tiny.ag/c0gunnxj · submitted 1997
Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.
George Bernard Shaw, in Happiness and Misery and Wealth and Poverty
tiny.ag/upponmiq · submitted 1998
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.
Christopher Spranger, The Effort to Fall, in Wealth and Poverty
tiny.ag/qk0rnn17 · submitted 1997
When the rich make war it's the poor that die.
tiny.ag/azsgcja4 · submitted 1997
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Wealth and Poverty
tiny.ag/t6cxlzxo · submitted 1997
It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, that gives happiness.
Thomas Jefferson, in Wealth and Poverty and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/83wmvvdq · submitted 1997
Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs painting.
tiny.ag/nuplbfta · submitted 1997
The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters.
Jean-Paul Kauffmann, in Science and Religion and Wealth and Poverty
tiny.ag/0spygbpd · submitted 1997
Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It buys you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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