Subject: Money (Page 19)

If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again; it was probably worth it.

It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.

(1818 – 1885) humorist

I told you I needed to feed my family; they offered me 3 years at $21 million – that’s not going to cut it.

professional basketball player

I was once so broke I forgot whether you cut steak with a knife or drank it with a spoon.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor

Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.

(1797 – 1879) American businessman & speculator

Telephone psychics are better at making fortunes than at reading them.

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

Fifty percent of America’s population spends less than ten dollars a month on romance; you know what we call these people? … Men.

(1950 – ) comedian & television host

The probability of winning is inversely proportional to the amount of the wager.

Las Vegas is the oasis of outstretched palms.

English boxing journalist & commentator

The wages of sin are unreported.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and Jill a rich widow.

(1899 – 1995) humorist

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

(1941 – 2008) British journalist, musician &broadcaster

I believe that sex is the most wonderful and beautiful thing that money can buy.

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

Whoever said money can’t buy happiness simply didn’t know where to go shopping.


I'm gonna ask the Falcons for so much money they'll have to put me on layaway.

American football player

Government expands to absorb revenue and then some.

If all the nations in the world are in debt, where did all the money go?

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

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

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

Invest in inflation… it’s the only thing going up.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Financial Wizard: A person who can earn money faster than the family can spend it.

As the economy gets better, everything else gets worse.