Subject: Money (Page 6)

No matter what stage of completion one reaches in a North Sea (oil) field, the cost of the remainder of the project remains the same.

My doctor is wonderful; once, when I couldn’t afford an operation, he touched up the X-rays.

(1918 – 2007) American entertainer, actor & television host

If I had a dollar for every time I said that, I'd be making money in a very weird way.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

There were times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

(1900 – 1967) American film actor

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

(1883 – 1946) English economist

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

(1907 – 1987) journalist & columnist

Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

(1919 – 1997) American businessman

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

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

(1879 – 1964) British politician

Nobody ever said that capitalism guarantees profit.

(1947 – ) American economist

Sex is like art; most of it is pretty bad, and the good stuff is out of your price range.

writer, website creator

Dime: A dollar with all the taxes taken out.

When the last great scorer comes to mark against your name, it’s not whether you won or lost, but how many paid to see the game.

baseball executive

Rich people bring a lawyer; Latinos and blacks bring their moms.

(1976 – ) comedian

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 only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.

(1943 – ) U.S. agriculture commissioner, columnist, activist & author

Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

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

1. You can't get anything without working for it.
2. The most you can accomplish by working is to break even.
3. You can only break even at absolute zero.

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. we were so poor, in my neighborhood the rainbow was in black-and-white.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor