Subject: Money (Page 24)

My sister just got married; I was the maid of debt in that little event.

(1965 – ) American comedian

If I’m making millions to put a ball through a hoop, you can’t ever piss me off.

(1975 – ) American comedian, actor & writer

The girl who marries for money may find herself in debt for life.

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Deficit: What you have when you don’t have as much as if you had nothing.

So far, I haven’t heard of anybody who wants to stop living on account of the cost.

(1856 – 1915) writer, publisher, artist & philosopher

Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.

All I ask is a chance to prove that money can’t make me happy.

(1918 – 2002) Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet & playwright

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

A luxury meal was prairie sandwiches – two slices of bread with wide-open spaces between them.

(1919 – 1985) Scottish comedian & actor

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

Auditors always reject any expense account with a bottom line divisible by five or ten.

If I had a dollar for every time I said that, I'd be making money in a very weird way.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

Reparation: Satisfaction that is made for a wrong and deducted from the satisfaction felt in committing it.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

(1835 – 1902) English composer, author & satirist

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

Talk is cheap – except when Congress does it.

(1923 – ) American quote & quip writer

You never want the one you can afford.

I don't like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves.

(1914 – 1981) American boxing champion

The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the happy wish to be married, the married wish to be dead.

(1918 – 2002) advice columnist

Computing power increases as the square of the cost; if you want to do it twice as cheaply, you have to do it four times slower.