Money and Wealth

There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second, that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can’t think of what to do with the long winter evenings.

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

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

 

The love of wealth is therefore to be traced, as either a principal or an accessory motive, at the bottom of all that the Americans do; this gives to all their passions a sort of family likeness.

The rich . . . divide with the poor the produce of all their improvements. They are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same distribution of the necessaries of life, which would have been made, had the earth been divided into equal proportions among all its inhabitants.

But the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels.

 

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

Beauty holds more worth than gold.

 

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

[ Groucho Marx speaking after a woman says, “I don’t like this innuendo” :] That’s what I always say. Love flies out the door when money comes innuendo.

It’s easy ’nough to titter w’en de stew is smokin’ hot, But hit’s mighty ha’d to giggle w’en dey’s nuffin’ in de pot.

Poor little rich girl.

Ill fares the land, to hast’ning ills a prey,

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

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

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

If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.

Every man lives by exchanging.

Possessions possess.

I've got all the money I'll ever need if I die by four o'clock.

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.