Subject: Money (Page 8)

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

The pay raise is just large enough to increase your taxes and just small enough to have no effect on your take-home pay.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

(1908 – 1989) American actress of film, television & theater

It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.

(1925 – ) columnist & journalist

If John Kerry had a dollar for every time he bragged about serving in Vietnam… oh wait, he does!

(1961 – ) American lawyer, political commentator, author & syndicated columnist

Government expands to absorb revenue and then some.

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

(1937 – ) comedian & television actor

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.

(1908 – 1973) 36th U.S. president

Live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so.

You've no idea what it costs to keep the old man in poverty.

(1900 – 1979) British statesman & naval officer

Money is not the most important thing in the world, love is… fortunately, I love money.

(1934 – ) comedian

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.

(1855 – 1934) English dramatist

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

(1899 – 1995) humorist

Divorce, from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man’s genitals through his wallet.

(1951 – 2014) comedian & actor

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

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

(1863 – 1947) automobile industrialist

It is not economical to go to bed early to save the candles if the result is twins.

I’m living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

(1894 – 1962) American poet, painter, essayist, author & playwright

Dime: A dollar with all the taxes taken out.

If you like easygoing, monogamous men, stay away from billionaires.

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

Maybe money corrupts the character; but lack of money isn't going to improve it either.

(1902 – 1968) novelist