Subject: Money (Page 29)

The client who pays the least complains the most.

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

(1941 – 2008) British journalist, musician &broadcaster

From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.

(1928 – ) British journalist, writer & columnist

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

(1741 – 1794) French writer

Psychic: An individual having an uncanny, seemingly supernatural, talent for extracting money from morons.

American author

If you think that education is expensive, try ignorance.

(1930 – ) American lawyer & educator

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author

I went to counseling, spent $5,000 to have two women call me a loser.

(1957 – ) American comedian

Money is what you’d get on beautifully without if only other people weren’t so crazy about it.

Being young is not having any money; being young is not minding not having any money

(1928 – ) British journalist, writer & columnist

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

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

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

Oh God, bills, bills, bills. … Honestly Baldrick, sometimes I feel like a pelican – whichever way I turn, I’ve still got an enormous bill in front of me.

(1955 – ) English actor

Bank: An institution that will gladly lend you money provided you can prove you don’t need it.

Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.

(1950 – ) American cartoonist The Far Side

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

(1909 – 1959) Australian-born American actor

A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if he were rich.

(1763 – 1848) German-American, first multi-millionaire in the U.S.

Money often costs too much.

(1803 – 1882) essayist, poet, & philosopher

If it's a good script I'll do it; and if it's a bad script, and they pay me enough, I'll do it.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

A lifelong friend is one you haven't borrowed money from yet.

(1914 – 1953) Welsh-born poet & writer