Wealth and Poverty

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

 George Bernard Shaw, in  Wealth and Poverty

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

 Frank Lloyd Wright, in  Wealth and Poverty

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

 Jean-Paul Sartre, in  War and Peace and  Wealth and Poverty

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

 Spike Milligan, in  Wealth and Poverty

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

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

 William Shakespeare, Henry VI, in  Wealth and Poverty

Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.

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

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

 Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman, in  Life and Death and  Wealth and Poverty

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

 Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in  Wealth and Poverty

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

 Stephen T. Steve, in  Vice and Virtue and  Wealth and Poverty

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

 Unknown, in  Wealth and Poverty

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

 Woody Allen, in  Wealth and Poverty

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

 Bill Anderson, (from the song "Poor Folks"), in  Wealth and Poverty

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

 Jane Austen, in  Wealth and Poverty

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

 James Montgomery Bailey, in  Wealth and Poverty

Behind every great fortune, there is a crime.

 Honoré de Balzac, in  Wealth and Poverty

No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.

 William Cowper, in  Law and Politics and  Wealth and Poverty

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.

 A. Cygni, in  Law and Politics and  Wealth and Poverty

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

 Finley Peter Dunne, in  Wealth and Poverty

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

 Henry Ford, in  Wealth and Poverty