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.

Avarice, the spur of industry.

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.

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 richest monarch in the Christian world; The sun in my own dominions never sets. 3

 

Marcela loved me during fifteen months and three thousand dollars; nothing more.

Blood's not thicker than money.

Money … is none of the wheels of trade: it is the oil which renders the motion of the wheels more smooth and easy.

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country’s pride, When once destroy’d, can never be supplied.

[ 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.

Economics is the painful elaboration of the obvious.

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

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.