Wealth and Poverty
49 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/aeqa8ipy · submitted 1997
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
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/ahgswdqq · submitted 1999
Alas, fortune does not change men; it unmasks them.
tiny.ag/g42cvkx0 · submitted 1997
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
John D. Rockefeller, in Vice and Virtue and Wealth and Poverty
tiny.ag/83wmvvdq · submitted 1997
Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs painting.
tiny.ag/qk0rnn17 · submitted 1997
When the rich make war it's the poor that die.
tiny.ag/japbfdwv · submitted 1997
Having nothing, nothing can he lose.
William Shakespeare, Henry VI, in Wealth and Poverty
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/gpgnitbr · submitted 1997
What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.
tiny.ag/75ely1qd · submitted 1997
Money is like an arm or leg: use it or lose it.
tiny.ag/rcl3mcj0 · submitted 1997
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
tiny.ag/blmzpnir · submitted 1997
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
tiny.ag/oljxzymd · submitted 1997
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
tiny.ag/d3qjgzaa · submitted 1997
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
tiny.ag/dgpjywem · submitted 1997
A young man with good health and a poor appetite can save up money.
tiny.ag/litmxv5j · submitted 1997
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
tiny.ag/o4tugiae · submitted 1997
While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.
tiny.ag/2upsgaxe · submitted 1997
The way to make a small fortune in the commodities market is to start with a large fortune.
tiny.ag/huwbmgt6 · submitted 1997
The easiest way to figure the cost of living is to take your income and add ten percent.
tiny.ag/vm8pwhyr · submitted 1998 by nthomas
The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong.
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