Subject: Money (Page 33)

Saving is a very fine thing; especially when your parents have it for you.

(1874 – 1965) British prime minister, politician, statesman & orator

He found it inconvenient to be poor.

(1731 – 1800) English poet & hymn-writer

It isn’t enough for you to love money… it’s also necessary that money should love you.

(1840 – 1915) British banker & politician

Expenditure rises to meet income.

The length of a marriage is inversely proportional to the amount spent on the wedding.

When I was born I owed twelve dollars.

(1889 – 1961) Am. playwright, theater director & producer & humorist

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

(1925 – ) columnist & journalist

The major concrete achievement of the women's movement in the 1970s was the Dutch treat.

(1941 – 2012) American novelist, producer, screenwriter & director

In America, it's not how much an item costs, it's how much you save.

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

(1915 – 1977) columnist, writer & actor

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

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.

(1883 – 1946) English economist

Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.

(1706 – 1790) American statesman, author, scientist & inventor

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back, they’re probably broke.

There's many a pessimist who got that way by financing an optimist.

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

(1950 – ) American cartoonist The Far Side

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'whose?'

I forgot how expensive this town is; checking into the hotel this morning, I literally had to give the bellhop $10 just for taking my tip.

American comedian & writer

Miser: A person who lives poor so that he can die rich.

When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing… it's the money.

Charles Farrar Browne (1834 – 1867) humorist

By the time we've made it, we've had it.

(1919 – 1990) publisher & author