Subject: Money (Page 17)

Diagnosis: A physician's forecast of the disease by the patient's pulse and purse.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year; they don’t realize that most of us only make $500,000.00.

professional baseball player

One of the most difficult things in the world is to convince a woman that even a bargain costs money.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor

A crowded police docket is the surest of all signs that trade is brisk and money plenty.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

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

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

Brooklyn is the only place where a guy can open up a candy store sell no candy and gross over eight million dollars a year.

(1957 – 2007) American stand-up comedian & actor

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

Markets can remain irrational a lot longer than you and I can remain solvent.

American financial analyst & commentator

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

If the guy was poor, I’d give it back.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

I bought a million lottery tickets… I won a dollar.


Change is inevitable… except from vending machines.

Medical insurance is what allows people to be ill at ease!

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

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

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

(1861 – 1950) American writer

The difference between a little money and no money at all is enormous… and the difference between a little money and an enormous amount of money is very slight.

(1897 – 1975) American author & playwright

Nobody ever lost a dollar by underestimating the taste of the American public.

(1810 – 1891) American politician, showman & businessman

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.

(1908 – 1973) 36th U.S. president

Money is something you got to make in case you don’t die.

(? – 1968) Russian-American, founder of New York’s famed Stage Deli

When a person with experience meets a person with money, the person with experience will get the money and the person with the money will get some experience.