Subject: Money (Page 11)

A fool and your money are soon partners.

I remember sitting down with the Rockets and saying, 'Yeah. I'm going to retire.' They said, 'Well, we'll give you $9 million.' And I said, 'You got a pen on you?'

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

(1902 – 1971) American humorist & poet

When it comes to paying, he’s the first to put his hand in his pocket… and leave it there.

Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.

(1919 – 1990) educator & writer

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

(1933 – 1997) Anglo-French billionaire financier

I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

He took me to McDonald’s, backed his car through the drive-through window, so the cashier could be on my side.

comedian & radio personality

Gold Digger: A girl who will date any man that can pass the asset test.

Anyone with money to burn will always find himself surrounded by people with matches.

I need money… I have a staff of 30, and four houses, never mind the government, to support.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor

My mother always said don't marry for money, divorce for money.

(1961 – ) American stand-up comedian

The more an item costs, the farther you have to send it for repairs.

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

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet

Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.

William Sydney Porter (1862 – 1910) American writer

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

(1858 – 1932) American physicist, physician & humorist

Don’t you hate it when people assume you’re rich because you sound posh and went to private school and have loads of money?

British actor, comedian & writer

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

You might be a redneck if… your `huntin dawg' cost more than the truck you drive him around in.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

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You will never find any more loose change than you have already lost.