Money and Wealth

I was once so poor I didn't know where my next husband was coming from.

The most popular method of distributing wealth is the method of the roulette table.

The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.

He who gives money he has not earned is generous with other people's labor.

Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man’s greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety.

Money cannot buy The fuel of love But is excellent kindling.

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

He who wishes to be rich within a day, will be hanged within a year.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

Infinite riches in a little room. 3

A light wife doth make a heavy husband.

Saint-seducing gold.

The wealthy curled darlings of our nation.

Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye, Four and twenty blackbirds, Baked in a pie; When the pie was opened, The birds began to sing; Wasn’t that a dainty dish To set before a king? The king was in his countinghouse Counting out his money; The queen was in the parlor Eating bread and honey; The maid was in the garden Hanging out the clothes, Along came a blackbird, And snipped off her nose.

They [the poor] have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

The trouble, Mr Goldwyn, is that you are only interested in art and I am only interested in money.

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

The ordinary object of human endeavor—property, outward success, luxury—have always seemed to me contemptible.

In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.