Subject: Money (Page 9)

Nothing will dispel enthusiasm like a small admission fee.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

I don't like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves.

(1914 – 1981) American boxing champion

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

The dollar will never fall as low as what some people will do to get it.

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

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

(1899 – 1995) humorist

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

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

That's Jack Benny; he's always out there on bad days like that looking for golf balls.

(1902 – 1977) American singer & actor

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.

(1908 – 1973) 36th U.S. president

Prison inmates are treated to cable TV, hot meals and a college education, while on the outside some people can only afford these things through a life of crime!

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

Money can’t buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

(1908 – 1997) German-born teacher, academic & humorist

He once gave Gracie a coupon for a year’s subscription to a magazine as a gift – and all she had to do was fill it out and send it in with a check.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

Nothing stimulates the appetite like an empty billfold.

Money can't buy everything… but then again, neither can no money.

If I had that kind of money, I wouldn't come to Vietnam, I'd send for it.

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

Everything costs more and takes longer.

Don King doesn't care about black or white. He just cares about green.

American boxing champion

We were so poor a robber once broke into our house and we ended up robbing the robber.

American football player

[Charles Dickens] was the bravest man who ever lived; he fathered ten children before they became tax deductions.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

(1771 – 1845) English writer & Anglican clergyman

The greater the funding, the longer it takes to make the mistake.

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

(1907 – 1988) science fiction author