Subject: Money (Page 22)

You can't get rich sitting on the bench, but I'm giving it a try.

professional baseball player

There are no "free lunches," but sometimes it costs more to collect money than to give away food.

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

(1933 – 1997) Anglo-French billionaire financier

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

(1900 – 1965) diplomat & Democratic politician

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

(1915 – 2005) playwright & essayist

1. If you want something badly, that's how you get it. 2. Many "get-rich-quick" schemes make millionaires – out of multi-millionaries.

We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

Business is the art of extracting money from another man’s pocket without resorting to violence.

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

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer

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

(1930 – ) financier & investment businessman

The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.

(1918 – 2002) advice columnist

Income: The sum of money which it costs more than to live.

Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month; others just go over them.


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

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

I'm not technically rich, but I do have a lot of shit that I don't need, and I refuse to share with others.

(1970 – ) American stand-up comedian & voice actor

Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.

(1913 – 1983) journalist & author

When packing for a vacation, take half as much clothing and twice as much money.

Americans are getting stronger; twenty years ago it took two people to carry ten dollars' worth of groceries… today, a five-year-old can do it.

(1906 – 1998) English-born American comedian

The book you spent $20.95 for today will come out in paperback tomorrow.