Subject: Money » Wealth

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

(1899 – 1995) humorist

1. Always hire a rich solicitor.

2. Never buy from a rich salesman.

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

(1918 – 2002) advice columnist

Mausoleum: The final and funniest folly of the rich.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Among the propensities of humans which almost exceed understanding come the parsimony of the rich and the extravagance of the poor.

I'm the kind of guy who will have nothing all my life and then they'll discover oil while they're digging my grave.

(1919 – 1991) American comedian & actor

Be careful of men who are bald and rich; the arrogance of "rich" usually cancels out the nice of "bald.”

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if he were rich.

(1763 – 1848) German-American, first multi-millionaire in the U.S.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'whose?'

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

I'd rather be rich than stupid.

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

(1892 – 1976) oil industrialist (once world’s richest man)

BREAKING: Mitt Romney will embark on a three-nation foreign trip to visit his money.

(1958 – ) American writer, comedian, satirist & actor

You can't get rich in politics unless you are a crook.


I’m opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

A rich man has no need of character.

My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.

(1892 – 1976) oil industrialist (once world’s richest man)

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

It's better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick.

Don’t you hate it when people assume you’re rich because you sound posh and went to private school and have loads of money?

British actor, comedian & writer

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

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