Subject: Money (Page 29)

Unless the results are known in advance, funding agencies will reject the proposal.

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.

(1908 – 1980) businessman, humorist

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

The Catholic Church is still very angry about The Da Vinci Code… they don’t like anything that makes more money in a weekend than they do.

(1950 – ) comedian & television host

Thrift: Common sense applied to spending.

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.

(1899 – 1985) US author & humorist

I wished the buck stopped here, as I could use a few.

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Never criticize Americans… they have the best taste that money can buy.

(1941 – 2008) British journalist, musician &broadcaster

Behind every great fortune there is a crime.


(1799 – 1850) French novelist & playwright

We were poor. we were so poor, in my neighborhood the rainbow was in black-and-white.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

(1900 – 1965) diplomat & Democratic politician

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

(1975 – ) American comedian, actor & writer

A consultant is someone who, when hired to find out what time it is, borrows your watch to find out.

All I’ve ever wanted was an honest week’s pay for an honest day’s work.

(1945 – ) comedian, actor, writer, playwright & musician

I always invest in companies an idiot could run, because one day one will.

(1930 – ) financier & investment businessman

My mom bought cookies… and they were never the good cookies; it was always the pack of 1000 that said: 'Cookies.'

comedian

President Bush wants to spend $7 billion this year to fight the drug dealers in Colombia… but they only earn $3 billion a year; so why don't we pay them $4 billion a year not to grow the cocaine?

American comedian & writer

College is great; it’s the only time in life where you can write a check for 39 cents… and bounce it.

(1961 – ) American stand-up comedian