Subject: Money (Page 7)

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

They live in a beautiful apartment overlooking their rent.

Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

A rich man is one who isn’t afraid to ask the salesperson to show him something cheaper.

(1894 – 1974) comedian, radio & television host

Money is like manure; it’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around encouraging young things to grow.

(1897 – 1975) American author & playwright

Among the things money can't buy is what it used to.

typographer

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

(1902 – 1971) American humorist & poet

In order to get a loan you must first prove you don't need it.

A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.

(1908 – 1972) American politician & civil rights leader

Find out the cost before you get in.

The shortest measurable interval of time is the time between the moment one puts a little extra aside for a sudden emergency and the arrival of that emergency.

Mendoza: I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.

Tanner: I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.

(1913 – 1983) journalist & author

When a man says money can do anything… he hasn't got any.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor

Money cannot buy health, but I'll settle for a diamond studded wheelchair.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet

There is only one word for aid that is genuinely without strings, and that word is blackmail.

(1902 – 1977) Scottish journalist & author

If you want to be on the upper crust, you need to have a lot of dough.

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

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

(1895 – 1972) writer and literary & social critic

The Jack Benny I knew threw his money around… not far – but he threw it.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

(1818 – 1885) humorist

Dime: A dollar with all the taxes taken out.