Subject: Money

The United States has developed a new weapon that destroys people but it leaves buildings standing; it's called the stock market.

(1950 – ) comedian & television host

The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it's compromising.

It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.

(1818 – 1885) humorist

The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.

(1915 – 1977) columnist, writer & actor

My wife donates money to the homeless and I donate money to the topless.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

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

No woman can be too rich or too thin.

Duchess of Windsor (1896 – 1986) American socialite & wife of the Prince Edward, formerly King Edward VIII

You can't get rich in politics unless you are a crook.


When you don’t have any money, the problem is food; when you have money, it’s sex; when you have both, it’s health.

(1926 – ) Irish American novelist & playwright

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Free advice is worth the price.

businessman

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

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet

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

boxing writer & sports historian

Money enables a man to get along without an education, and education enables him to get along without money.

writer

Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?

(1918 – 2007) American humor writer

I told you I needed to feed my family; they offered me 3 years at $21 million – that’s not going to cut it.

professional basketball player

A rich man has no need of character.

The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.

(1943 – ) U.S. agriculture commissioner, columnist, activist & author

The rich aren’t like us… they pay less taxes.

(1910 – 1993) editor & novelist

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

(1835 – 1902) English composer, author & satirist

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

(1947 – ) author, humorist & satirist