Wealth and Poverty
49 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/vm8pwhyr · ★★☆☆ Fair (854 ratings) · submitted 1998 by nthomas
The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong.
tiny.ag/huwbmgt6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (253 ratings) · submitted 1997
The easiest way to figure the cost of living is to take your income and add ten percent.
tiny.ag/dv1lo7ef · ★★☆☆ Fair (332 ratings) · submitted 1997
Money is the root of all evil, and man needs roots.
tiny.ag/w3vp1iki · ★★☆☆ Fair (314 ratings) · submitted 1997
Money can't buy happiness -- but somehow it's more comfortable to cry in a Porsche than in a Lada.
tiny.ag/lhewzazm · ★★☆☆ Fair (256 ratings) · submitted 1997
I'd rather be rich than stupid.
tiny.ag/aqk8szqi · ★★☆☆ Fair (204 ratings) · submitted 1997
Change is good, but dollars are better.
tiny.ag/nuplbfta · ★★☆☆ Fair (279 ratings) · 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/t6cxlzxo · ★★☆☆ Fair (1006 ratings) · 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/mcsqdvek · ★★☆☆ Fair (257 ratings) · submitted 1997
All this wheeling and dealing around, why, it isn't for money, it's for fun. Money's just the way we keep score.
tiny.ag/71lergfc · ★★☆☆ Fair (806 ratings) · submitted 1997
All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
tiny.ag/3lf8aeu1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (250 ratings) · submitted 1997
Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn't expect to be paid back.
tiny.ag/is34lohk · ★★☆☆ Fair (290 ratings) · submitted 1997
A banker will lend you money only if you can prove you don't need it.
tiny.ag/cz2awrgd · ★★☆☆ Fair (263 ratings) · submitted 1997
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
tiny.ag/bs6fhkpv · ★★☆☆ Fair (265 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
tiny.ag/qy3grjnv · ★★☆☆ Fair (274 ratings) · submitted 1997
You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
tiny.ag/cpyfxowq · ★★☆☆ Fair (542 ratings) · submitted 1997
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, the other is getting it.
tiny.ag/i9vof3d6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (290 ratings) · submitted 1997
A budget is just a method of worrying before you spend money, as well as afterward.
tiny.ag/upponmiq · ★★☆☆ Fair (820 ratings) · 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/gpgnitbr · ★★☆☆ Fair (358 ratings) · submitted 1997
What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.
tiny.ag/c0gunnxj · ★★☆☆ Fair (456 ratings) · submitted 1997
Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.
George Bernard Shaw, in Happiness and Misery and Wealth and Poverty
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