Money and Wealth

In his efforts to escape from ugliness and unhappiness the rich man intensifies both. Every new yard of West End creates a new acre of East End.

The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.

The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

Riches and Art are spurious receipts for the production of Happiness and Beauty.

WHEN I GET A LITTLE MONEY, I BUY BOOKS; AND IF ANY IS LEFT, I BUY FOOD AND CLOTHES.

IN MANY WALKS OF LIFE, A CONSCIENCE IS A MORE EXPENSIVE ENCUMBRANCE THAN A WIFE OR A CARRIAGE.

You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.

PEOPLE ALWAYS LIVE FOREVER WHEN THERE IS ANY ANNUITY TO BE PAID THEM.

What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper.

The quickest way to make a million? Marry it.

I'm sorry, my good fellow, but all my money is tied up in currency.

Now that he was rich he was not thought ignorant any more, but simply eccentric.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. Other dangerous months are July, january, September, April, November, May, March, june, December, August and February.

I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

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

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

I wouldn't trust a bank that would lend money to such a poor risk as me.

The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax.

When they fire a rocket at Cape Canaveral, I feel as if I own it.

(a) How much did you make last year? (b) How much have you got left? (c) Send (b).

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

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.