Subject: Money (Page 35)

My church accepts all denominations – fivers, tenners, twenties.

(1936 – 2005) Irish comedian

All progress is based on a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Government expands to absorb revenue and then some.

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.

(1855 – 1934) English dramatist

The lagging activity in a project will invariably be found in the area where the highest overtime rates lie waiting.

Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, & over these ideals they dispute & cannot unite — but they all worship money.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

In matters of dispute, the bank's balance is always smaller than yours.

He died of cirrhosis of the liver… it costs money to die of cirrhosis of the liver.

(1881 – 1975) English writer & humorist

In spite of the cost of living, it’s still popular.

(1880 – 1966) American novelist

To spot the expert, pick the one who predicts the job will take the longest and cost the most.

About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

(1929 – 1933) 31st U.S. president, humanitarian

I was so poor… in my neighborhood, the rainbow was in black and white!

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

What I'm saying is we were poor, people; I mean, blues singers would show up at our house when they had writer's block – that's how poor we were.

(1954 – ) American comedian, writer & musician

The only thing I like about rich people is their money.

(1879 – 1964) British politician

Telephone psychics are better at making fortunes than at reading them.

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

I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.

(1924 – 1973) American comic

What good is money if it can’t inspire terror in your fellow man?

cartoon character in, The Simpsons (Harry Shearer)

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only more expensive.

(1937 – 2000) science fiction author

Whoever has the gold makes the rules.

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

(1922 – 1991) American comedian

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

(1874 – 1936) English author & mystery novelist