Subject: Money (Page 12)

We were so poor, every Christmas Eve my old man would go outside and shoot his gun, then come in and tell us kids Santa Claus had committed suicide.

(1921 – ) American boxing champion

Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

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

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

You can never be too skinny or too rich.

(1915 – 1978) socialite

Acquaintance: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

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

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

The only advantage to living in the past is that the rents are much cheaper!

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

No matter how long or how hard you shop for an item, after you've bought it it will be on sale somewhere cheaper.

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

(1902 – 1971) American 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

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

(1934 – ) comedian

You can make a lot of money in this game; just ask my ex-wives; both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.

(1942 – ) American professional golfer

There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country… the trouble is they cost a quarter.

(1881 – 1960) American columnist

He (Lyndon Johnson) wanted to see poverty, so he came to see my team (1964 New York Mets).

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

By the time we've made it, we've had it.

(1919 – 1990) publisher & author

When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing… it's the money.

Charles Farrar Browne (1834 – 1867) humorist

Sex is like money; only too much is enough.

(1932 – 2009) author, poet & critic

A billion here, a billion there—pretty soon it adds up to real money.

(1896 – 1969) American congressman & senator (Illinois)

I've never been a millionaire but I just know I'd be darling at it.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet

It's better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick.

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

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host