Subject: Money (Page 30)

It ain't no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

Debt means you had more fun than you were supposed to.

(1966 – ) American stand-up comedian, television writer/producer & radio host

When I was born I owed twelve dollars.

(1889 – 1961) Am. playwright, theater director & producer & humorist

When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

Charles Farrar Browne (1834 – 1867) humorist

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

It's better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick.

About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

(1929 – 1933) 31st U.S. president, humanitarian

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

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

What I really need is a woman who loves me for my money but doesn’t understand math.

(1978 – ) American comedian & writer

The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

(1889 – 1945) actor, author & humorist

People who can least afford to pay rent, pay rent; people who can most afford to pay rent, build up equity.

Met a girl the other nite and told her-– “Before you can be with someone you have to know the value of yourself… so does $200 seem reasonable?”

(1956 – ) American stand-up comedian, actor & television ho

Talk is cheap – except when Congress does it.

(1923 – ) American quote & quip writer

Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.

Charles Farrar Browne (1834 – 1867) humorist

Government expands to absorb revenue and then some.

Never forget that your weapon was made by the lowest bidder.

Commerce: A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E. 

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Money isn’t everything but it sure keeps you in touch with your children.

(1943 – ) English comedian

We were so poor, every Christmas Eve my old man would go outside and shoot his gun, then come in and tell us kids Santa Claus had committed suicide.

(1921 – ) American boxing champion

The chief problem with lower income farmers is poverty.

(1908 – 1979) U.S. vice president & governor (New York)