Subject: Money (Page 12)

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


No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.

(1920 – 2001) American writer & humorist

Any renovation project on an old house will cost twice as much and take three times as long as originally estimated.

You've no idea what it costs to keep the old man in poverty.

(1900 – 1979) British statesman & naval officer

Misers make wonderful ancestors.

I bought a seven-dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

Debt means you had more fun than you were supposed to.

(1966 – ) American stand-up comedian, television writer/producer & radio host

Among the propensities of humans which almost exceed understanding come the parsimony of the rich and the extravagance of the poor.

Part of the loot went for gambling, part for horses, and part for women; the rest I spent foolishly.

(1895 – 1980) American actor

My father looked at the check and then told the scout, 'Throw in another hundred and you can take the rest of the family.'

baseball player

I want a man who’s kind and understanding; is that too much to ask of a millionaire?

(1917 – 2016) Hungarian-born American actress

When I was 14, he sat me down, said, 'Larry, someday you're gonna meet a girl who's gonna be so right and so wonderful and so perfect that you're not even gonna haggle over price.'

(1955 – ) American stand-up comedian

Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month; others just go over them.


Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

I got a $290 parking ticket today… my car only cost $240.

(1973 – ) American stand-up comedian

I paid too much for it, but it’s worth it.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'whose?'

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.

(1899 – 1985) US author & humorist

Insurance: An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

When two people meet to decide how to spend a third person's money, fraud will result.