Wealth and Poverty

It is odd, is it not, that a person's worth to society is measured by their wealth, when instead their wealth should be measured by their worth to society.

A. Cygni, in Law and Politics and Wealth and Poverty

Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.

Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Love and Hate and Wealth and Poverty

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

Anatole France, in Wealth and Poverty

Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.

Benjamin Franklin, in Wealth and Poverty

In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Benjamin Franklin, in Life and Death and Wealth and Poverty

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

Robert Frost, in Wealth and Poverty

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

J. Paul Getty, in Success and Failure and Wealth and Poverty

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Wealth and Poverty

No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.

William Cowper, in Law and Politics and Wealth and Poverty

I'd rather be rich than stupid.

Unknown, in Success and Failure and Wealth and Poverty

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen, in Wealth and Poverty

A young man with good health and a poor appetite can save up money.

James Montgomery Bailey, in Wealth and Poverty

Money is like an arm or leg: use it or lose it.

Henry Ford, in Wealth and Poverty

All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.

Spike Milligan, in Wealth and Poverty

All this wheeling and dealing around, why, it isn't for money, it's for fun. Money's just the way we keep score.

Unknown, in Wealth and Poverty

Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn't expect to be paid back.

Unknown, in Wealth and Poverty

Change is good, but dollars are better.

Unknown, in Wealth and Poverty

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

Frank Lloyd Wright, in Wealth and Poverty

You can't have everything. Where would you put it?

Stephen Wright, in Wealth and Poverty

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, the other is getting it.

Oscar Wilde, in Wealth and Poverty