Subject: Money (Page 5)

Sure, it's nice to win; but there's only one thing that's important to me and that's the money we're going to get, win or lose.

professional baseball player

Money is a powerful aphrodisiac, but flowers work almost as well.

(1907 – 1988) science fiction author

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

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

(1741 – 1794) French writer

As the economy gets better, everything else gets worse.

I call our bathroom 'The Vault' because the door's always locked and whatever goes on in there costs a shitload of money.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the happy wish to be married, the married wish to be dead.

(1918 – 2002) advice columnist

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and Jill a rich widow.

(1899 – 1995) humorist

Stock Market: A popular game of chance in which moneyed speculators gamble with the nation’s economy, the object being to amass as much unearned income as possible before one’s fellow gamblers withdraw from the game and precipitate a nationwide depression.

Auditors always reject any expense account with a bottom line divisible by five or ten.

So far, I haven’t heard of anybody who wants to stop living on account of the cost.

(1856 – 1915) writer, publisher, artist & philosopher

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

(1924 – 1973) American comic

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

(1961 – ) American actor & comedian

It's so cold here in Washington, D.C., that politicians have their hands in their own pockets.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor

It takes money to make money because you have to copy the design exactly.

comedian

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.

(1908 – 1973) 36th U.S. president

Divorce, from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man’s genitals through his wallet.

(1951 – 2014) comedian & actor

Scientists who dislike the restraints of highly organized research like to remark that a truly great research worker needs only three pieces of equipment – a pencil, a piece of paper, and a brain… but they quote this maxim more often at academic banquets than at budget hearings.

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

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

In many instances, marriage vows would be more accurate if the phrase were changed to ‘Until debt do us part.’

(1920 – 2001) American writer & humorist

Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth; it is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

(1881 – 1975) English writer & humorist