Subject: Money (Page 25)

No project was ever completed on time and within budget.

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

We were so poor a robber once broke into our house and we ended up robbing the robber.

American football player

I tell ya, it’s tough to save a buck. Right now I’m supporting two fighters. My wife and her mother.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

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

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need money the most, are the very ones who never have it.

(1867 – 1936) author & humorist

The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.

(1818 – 1885) humorist

You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony.

(1882 – 1942) American actor

They live in a beautiful apartment overlooking their rent.

He who hesitates is poor.

(1926 – ) film director, screenwriter, composer, comedian, actor & producer

After a salary raise, you will have less money at the end of the month than you had before.

Dime: A dollar with all the taxes taken out.

Nowadays, an after-dinner mint is what you need to pay the restaurant check.

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

He's so old that when he orders a three-minute egg, they ask for the money up front.

(1908 – 2002) comedian, radio & television actor

If ignorance ever goes to $40 a barrel, I want drilling rights on George Bush's head.

(1943 – ) U.S. agriculture commissioner, columnist, activist & author

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

(1900 – 1965) diplomat & Democratic politician

There is no direct relationship between the quality of an educational program and its cost.

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.

(1855 – 1934) English dramatist

[It’s] hard to become a billionaire in public office… legally, anyway.

(1928 – 2019) American business magnate a&d financier

If [an actor] says, 'But what's my motivation?… 'I say, 'Your salary.'

(1899 – 1980) English filmmaker & producer

You might be a redneck if… you own a Waffle House credit card.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality