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Wealth and Poverty
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. [Select] If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch. [Select] Bill Anderson (from the song "Poor Folks") A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. [Select] A young man with good health and a poor appetite can save up money. [Select] Behind every great fortune, there is a crime. [Select] Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. [Select] Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary [Shop] No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach. [Select] William Cowper {Also in: Law and Politics} 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. [Select] A. Cygni {Also in: Law and Politics} Treasure your relationships, not your possessions. [Select] Anthony J. D'Angelo: The College Blue Book [Shop] {Also in: Love and Hate} One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need money the most, are the very ones that never have it. [Select] Money is like an arm or leg: use it or lose it. [Select] 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. [Select] Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship. [Select] In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes. [Select] Benjamin Franklin {Also in: Life and Death} A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. [Select] If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. [Select] J. Paul Getty {Also in: Success and Failure} 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. [Select] It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, that gives happiness. [Select] Thomas Jefferson {Also in: Work and Recreation} The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters. [Select] Jean-Paul Kauffmann {Also in: Science and Religion} He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough. [Select]
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