Subject: Money (Page 35)

If you think that education is expensive, try ignorance.

(1930 – ) American lawyer & educator

So far, I haven’t heard of anybody who wants to stop living on account of the cost.

(1856 – 1915) writer, publisher, artist & philosopher

Baseball owners have moral scruples against taking any man’s dollar when there is a chance to take a dollar and a quarter.

(1905–1982) American sportswriter

There are two distinctive classes of people today, those who have personal computers, and those who have several thousand extra dollars apiece.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

Misers make wonderful ancestors.

I was so poor growing up if I wasn’t a boy, I’d have had nothing to play with.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

(1908 – 1989) American actress of film, television & theater

I used to sell furniture for a living… the trouble was, it was my own.

(1931 – 1993) English comedian

The Jack Benny I knew threw his money around… not far – but he threw it.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

A lifelong friend is one you haven't borrowed money from yet.

(1914 – 1953) Welsh-born poet & writer

The difference between a little money and no money at all is enormous… and the difference between a little money and an enormous amount of money is very slight.

(1897 – 1975) American author & playwright

People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.

businessman

A father is someone who carries pictures in his wallet where his money used to be.

I’m so rich, I wish I had a dime for every dime I had.

(1935 – 2002) English actor, comedian, composer & musician

The major concrete achievement of the women's movement in the 1970s was the Dutch treat.

(1941 – 2012) American novelist, producer, screenwriter & director

Whoever said money can’t buy happiness simply didn’t know where to go shopping.


President Bush has just one question for the American voters: is the rich person you're working for better off now than they were 4 years ago?

(1950 – ) comedian & television host

We were poor… if I wasn’t a boy, I wouldn’t have had nothing to play with.

(1922 – 1991) American comedian

If horse racing is the sport of kings, then drag racing must be the sport of queens.

boxing writer & sports historian

There are no "free lunches," but sometimes it costs more to collect money than to give away food.

Reporter: What did you think about the collective bargaining proposal?

Payton: (making $2,700,000 per year): People would have to cut their lifestyle, and they’d live like penny-pinchers.

professional football coach