Subject: Money (Page 16)

Go where the money is.

Committee reports dealing with wages, salaries, fringe benefits, facilities, computers, employee parking, libraries, coffee breaks, secretarial support, etc., always call for dramatic expenditure increases.

A woman can smell mink through six inches of lead.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

If ignorance ever goes to $40 a barrel, I want drilling rights on George Bush's head.

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

The time I was kidnapped, and the kidnappers sent my parents a note they said, “We want five thousand dollars or you’ll see your kid again.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

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

Death is a wonderful way of cutting down on your expenses.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

Money is a powerful aphrodisiac, but flowers work almost as well.

(1907 – 1988) science fiction author

In many instances, marriage vows would be more accurate if the phrase were changed to ‘Until debt do us part.’

(1920 – 2001) American writer & humorist

[It’s] hard to become a billionaire in public office… legally, anyway.

(1928 – 2019) American business magnate a&d financier

Lunch is on me.

(1969 – ) Canadian ice hockey player & executive

A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.

(1914 – ) historian

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

boxing writer & sports historian

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

(1900 – 1979) British statesman & naval officer

Money isn’t everything: usually it isn’t enough.

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

(1881 – 1975) English writer & humorist

I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.

(1963 – ) Canadian writer, actor & stand-up comedian

You're never too poor for good toilet paper.

comedian

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

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

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

Prison inmates are treated to cable TV, hot meals and a college education, while on the outside some people can only afford these things through a life of crime!

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