Subject: Money (Page 27)

An injured friend of his was going to receive back pay radioactively.

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.

He is so poor… he can't even pay attention.

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it’s terribly inconvenient.

(1908 – 2002) comedian, radio & television actor

The best investment opportunities are encountered when you are broke.

The dollar will never fall as low as what some people will do to get it.

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

Because you are feeding both the child and the floor, raising this child will be expensive.

(1937 – ) comedian & television actor

Money can’t buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

(1908 – 1997) German-born teacher, academic & humorist

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

(1950 – ) writer & humorist

Money can't buy happiness; it can, however, rent it.

I came from a dirt farm, now I'm filthy rich.

American boxing champion

No matter what stage of completion one reaches in a North Sea (oil) field, the cost of the remainder of the project remains the same.

You can never be too skinny or too rich.

(1915 – 1978) socialite

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

(1861 – 1950) American writer

He was so cheap, for example, that when Mary asked for diamonds for her birthday he bought her two of them… the eight and the queen.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

Upper Crust: People stuck together by their dough.

You're never too poor for good toilet paper.

comedian

Wealth is any income that is at least one hundred dollars a year more than the income of one’s wife’s sister’s husband.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

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

I forgot how expensive this town is; checking into the hotel this morning, I literally had to give the bellhop $10 just for taking my tip.

American comedian & writer

Debt: A trap which a man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into.