Money and Wealth

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Saving is a fine thing - especially when your parents have done it for you.

I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed.

I handed one of my creditors an IOU and thought thank heavens that's settled.