Subject: Money (Page 5)

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

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

(1918 – 2002) Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet & playwright

When I got to the hospice I was under the impression it would be a two- or three-week stay, but here I still am, six weeks later, and I've gotten so well Medicare won't pay for me anymore.

(1925 – 2007) humorist & columnist

Telephone psychics are better at making fortunes than at reading them.

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine

You’re supposed to spend two months worth of salary on an engagement ring, so when I get engaged, some lucky lady will receive a piece of Life Savers candy.

Jewish-American stand-up comedian & writer

You might be a redneck if… you think the stock market has fence around it.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

We were poor. we were so poor, in my neighborhood the rainbow was in black-and-white.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

(1876 – 1944) American author, humorist & columnist

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

(1899 – 1995) humorist

The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.

(1920 – 2001) American writer & humorist

Money cannot buy health, but I'll settle for a diamond studded wheelchair.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

(1907 – 1987) journalist & columnist

The wages of sin are unreported.

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

(1899 – 1980) English filmmaker & producer

Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.

(1950 – ) American cartoonist The Far Side

I came from a dirt farm, now I'm filthy rich.

American boxing champion

There’s a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking; it’s called marriage.

(1953 – 1992) American comedian

Thrift: Common sense applied to spending.

He died of cirrhosis of the liver… it costs money to die of cirrhosis of the liver.

(1881 – 1975) English writer & humorist

Americans are getting stronger; twenty years ago it took two people to carry ten dollars' worth of groceries… today, a five-year-old can do it.

(1906 – 1998) English-born American comedian

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

(1775 – 1817) English novelist