Money and Wealth

I started out with nothing and I've still got most of it left.

Money will not make you happy, and happy will not make you money.

When a man tells you he got rich by hard work, ask him whose.

Rabbit realized the world was not solid and benign, it was a shabby set of temporaryarrangements rigged up for the time being, all for the sake of the money. You just passedthrough, and they milked you for what youwere worth, mostly when you were young andgullible.

[ Of Ronald Reagan’s proposals to increase government revenues by reducing taxes :] Voodoo economics.

 

There is nothing earthly that lasts so well, on the whole, as money. A man’s learning dies with him; even his virtues fade out of remembrance; but the

Poverty comes pleading, not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.

Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to a man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in his pocket, he is half consoled, even though he cannot spend it.

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

Prosperity knits a man to the world. He thinks he's 'finding his place in it,' while really it is finding its place in him.

Beauty holds more worth than gold.

 

I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not easy to ask your mistress face to face, like money for instance.

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

Economics is the painful elaboration of the obvious.

It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a ‘dismal science.’ But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance.

Come good times or bad, there is always a market for things nobody needs.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.

If someone says, 'It's not the money, it's the principle,' it's the money.

Doänt thou marry for munny, but goä wheer munny is!

 

Dosn’t thou ’ear my ’erse’s legs, as they canters awaäy? Proputty, proputty, proputty—that’s what I ’ears ’em saäy.