Money and Wealth

A shilling life will give you all the facts.

The world has enough for everyone’s needs, but not enough for everyone’s greed.

How pleasant it is to have money, heigh ho!

Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.

Her voice is full of money.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.

Remember that time is money.

The Lottery, with its weekly pay-out of enormous prizes, was the one public event to which the proles paid serious attention

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

I’m one of the undeserving poor … up agen middle-class morality all the time … What is middle-class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything.

A clever theft was praiseworthy amongst the Spartans; and it is equally so amongst Christians, provided it be on a sufficiently large scale.

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

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

They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money except by working for it.

Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's, I mean.

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

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

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

Money is human happiness in the abstract.

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow citizens.

If people despise money when young, but grow to love it more and more as they grow older and no longer devote themselves to excellence as the best guardian, the power of reasoned, educated speech, leaves them.

Because people want more and more possessions, they start wanting more money, and thus honor money more and excellence less. Accordingly, the wealthy become more honored, and the people of excellence less honored. With the majority now money-loving businessmen instead of lovers of victory and honor, the admirable rich men will be put into office, and the poor will be dishonored.

Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.