Subject: Money (Page 6)

The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.

(1818 – 1885) humorist

Lunch is on me.

(1969 – ) Canadian ice hockey player & executive

Exceptions prove the rule… and wreck the budget.

I don't mind their having a lot of money, and I don't care how they employ it, but I do think that they damn well ought to admit they enjoy it.

(1902 – 1971) American humorist & poet

Unless the results are known in advance, funding agencies will reject the proposal.

The last thing my kids ever did to earn money was lose their baby teeth.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

(1903 – 1987 diplomat, playwright, journalist & politician

I don’t want to tell you how much insurance I carry with the Prudential, but all I can say is: when I go, they go too.

(1894 – 1974) comedian, radio & television host

Some people pay their bills when due, some when overdue, and some never do.

There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country… the trouble is they cost a quarter.

(1881 – 1960) American columnist

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.

(1924 – 1997) Dutch-American artist

How did a fool and his money get together in the first place?

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Tradition is what you resort to when you don’t have the time or the money to do it right.

(1905 – 1988) Austrian-born American conductor

Price: Value, plus a reasonable sum for the wear and tear of conscience in demanding it.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

(1928 – ) British journalist, writer & columnist

Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission.

(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian

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

If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.

(1922 – 1999) labor union leader, president of the AFL-CIO

President Bush has just one question for the American voters: is the rich person you're working for better off now than they were 4 years ago?

(1950 – ) comedian & television host

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

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer