Subject: Money (Page 33)

Any technical problem can be overcome given enough time and money.

Lerman's Corollary: You are never given enough time or money.

We were poor… if I wasn’t a boy, I wouldn’t have had nothing to play with.

(1922 – 1991) American comedian

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

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Why is it, “A penny for your thoughts,” but, “You have to put your two cents in?” … somebody’s making a penny.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

It was all the wolf could do to keep us away from his door.

(1919 – 1985) Scottish comedian & actor

There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.

(1883 – 1946) English economist

Basically, this is the way the economy works: I do a service for you, and you pay me, even if you claim you didn't want the service and that I "ruined" something of yours.

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

Debt: A trap which a man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into.

The best simple-minded test of expertise in a particular area is the ability to win money in a series of bets on future occurrences in that area.

Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.

William Sydney Porter (1862 – 1910) American writer

Anyone with money to burn will always find himself surrounded by people with matches.

Women prefer men who have something tender about them – especially the legal kind.

When you're poor, your Halloween costume is a liquor store box.

(1961 – ) American actor & comedian

If only God would give me some clear sign! … like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

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

When you don’t have any money, the problem is food; when you have money, it’s sex; when you have both, it’s health.

(1926 – ) Irish American novelist & playwright

Depression: A period during which we have to get along without the things our grandparents never dreamed of.

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

(1902 – 1971) American humorist & poet

When a person with experience meets a person with money, the person with experience will get the money and the person with the money will get some experience.

Bargain: anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist